I’m kind of sick of being into tech. Everything is riddled with ads and speculative investment. You have to manage your expectations so much because everything has a good likelihood of turning into garbage at a moments notice. It’s just not fun anymore. I know I’m probably a bit nostalgia blinded, but I miss the mid-late 2000s and early 2010s so much. Games were new and interesting, tech was moving at a lightning fast pace, things were fun.
I know it’s more complicated than that, and there are reasons things are how they are, but fuck man. Anyway, off my chest.
I agree with both of y’all here
Wikipedia is great and it operates exactly like an encyclopedia of olde, surface level info, maybe with a leak under the covers.
But ultimately you’re right. Tech is so much further ahead than is publicly available or even shared. Every advancement is hidden behind ivory doors or paywalls and rarely makes its way out. Beyond that, way way way too much disinformation is out across from authorities to protect the interests of business, at our expense.
I can’t square gatekeeping information with ethics. Imo it’s a betrayal of ancestors and the catalogue of knowledge we all should have inherited equally. Newton didn’t invent calculus, he was the first to uncover it (arguably). It was always there. Should those who enlighten the rest of us be compensated? Absolutely. But there’s no justification for the dragonhorde levels of depravity we exalt currently.
The supercomputers in our pockets, business has stolen all the gains from. My phone doesn’t feel any faster than it did in 2012, except YouTube clearly is paying for privilege after the death of net neutrality. All the extra transistors, all the extra gigs, all the extra processing power feels like it’s all been lost to telemetry - and I find that as infuriating as the idea of a subscription economy. Like others have echoed on this thread, I’m now years deep in degrowth, the open source movements (like reverse engineering pharmaceuticals) and anti-consumerism.
Be the change you want to see. If you can’t live it, why should anyone else?