> Lock-in is a kind of dance between technology and institutions that creates feedback loops to reinforce the status quo. The more you use something, the cheaper it is to continuing using due to scale, learning, and network economies. Monopolies and regulatory capture also lock us into bad policy and poor technology. [[Reference Notes/The Progress Illusion|The Progress Illusion]] --- Jaron Lanier writes extensively about lock-in in the book [[Reference Notes/Who Owns the Future|Who Owns the Future]] --- QWERTY keyboards are another example of "lock in". They were invented in the 1860s to prevent mechanical typewriters from jamming. Even though we no longer use mechanical typewriters, we are stuck with QWERTY keyboards.