Welcome to 2019! Twitter continues to provide an IV drip of bad news and bleak sentiment that may or may not be fair to the actual state of things. Bruce Sterling called this the "new dark," or "the resigned malaise that fits the post-Snowden internet and tech industry's consolidation." One thing I noticed as 2018 progressed was that anti-technology takes became more tedious, probably because the barriers to entry shrank and the sheer quantity of such takes exploded. I'm not sure how much more I can read about Facebook, and anyway, wasn't everything we're now learning about Facebook kind of apparent five years ago? With all that malaise internalized and priced into our models, it feels like an opportune time to experiment with alternate, underrepresented attitudes.
#75: Collapse as Utopia
#75: Collapse as Utopia
#75: Collapse as Utopia
Welcome to 2019! Twitter continues to provide an IV drip of bad news and bleak sentiment that may or may not be fair to the actual state of things. Bruce Sterling called this the "new dark," or "the resigned malaise that fits the post-Snowden internet and tech industry's consolidation." One thing I noticed as 2018 progressed was that anti-technology takes became more tedious, probably because the barriers to entry shrank and the sheer quantity of such takes exploded. I'm not sure how much more I can read about Facebook, and anyway, wasn't everything we're now learning about Facebook kind of apparent five years ago? With all that malaise internalized and priced into our models, it feels like an opportune time to experiment with alternate, underrepresented attitudes.