Old guy here. What happened with technology lately? Seems like everything has just stopped or focused on consumerism or Ponzi schemes. I’m 39 and witnessed
>BBS
>AOL / Compuserv
>WWW
>Linux
>Napster
>AIM / ICQ
>p2p / torrents
>Skype
>Veracrypt / TrueCrypt
>Bitcoin
>VPN
>Tor
What has really changed or been exciting other than some meme cryptocurrencies? Even that isn’t fun to play with or all that useful outside of hypothetical scenarios in the future. Am I wrong?
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We are forced to stay positive, positivity stands equal to non progression because positivity means youre happy the way it is.
Negativity stands for criticism and the will to make things better, but since negativity is demonitized as facism and hatespeech and muh 6 million we are stuck in all kinds of things including technology.
Yes. You gave women power. Enjoy your dark age, you didn't fucking learn the first time.
Self drive car
Fucking electronic cars can't stop catching fire. You think I'm going to trust some car programmed by a bootcamp graduate to drive me 70mph on the highway? Fuck that.
Just about everything you described are just file transfer methods. Once you can transfer any file, what's left to innovate?
What do you think is missing from "Tech" (or as you describe, the internet?)
Machine learning and AI have made huge leaps. Because the AI can better determine your interests it gives new video content an opportunity to shine.
This kind of content would not have been possible 5 years ago. It would only find a niche group of people already interested in the material. There wouldn't be a financial or prestige incentive to make the video, since you can't expect the video to get reach.
Induced pluripotent stem cells
"Infinite" gear tansmissions and consumer grade engine turbo boosters
Chelation based rust removers
Machine learning based CGI
Asteroid landing
Comercially viable shale oil extraction
Also computational power continues to get smaller and cheaper, in spite of no progress having been made to bypass the semi-conductor limit.
> Seems like everything has just stopped or focused on consumerism or Ponzi schemes. I’m 39 and witnessed
This. It really does feel that way. Normies killed the Internet, once they started using it in droves from their phones, the whole system seems to get dumped down and used for scammy shit (not that that hasn't always been a thing but it's more prevalent now).
Technology is becoming very user un-friendly too. Like they program it thinking you're a dumb fuck with no attention span. I got a new phone and had to spend days getting it stop notifying me for every retarded app it came installed with. It just came out of the box, annoying as fuck, trying to put advertisements in my face.
The Internet using TV's model of "free but you have to sit through tons of ads" is also killing it. That killed TV. That made people want to use the Internet and since the ads make the money, instead of just asking for the money for the product directly, it's subject to putting click-bait ads everywhere.
I know I'm ranting but I feel like becoming a luddite lately. Technology has become such a pain in the ass when it used to be so uplifting.