10 Reasons Why Technological Progress Is Now Reversing
I suspect we humans do better with constraints; the Internet stripped away the constraint of physical distribution, and now AI is removing the constraint of needing to actually produce content. That this is spoiling the Internet is perhaps the best hope for finding our way back to what is real. Let the virtual world be one of customized content for... See more
Stratechery by Ben Thompson • Regretful Accelerationism
(8) Science and technology are increasingly used to manipulate and exploit, not serve.
People now see actual degradation in every sphere of technology.
People now see actual degradation in every sphere of technology.
- Software upgrades are so bad that users actually fear them.
- Search engines get worse every year.
- Social media becomes more psychologically manipulative and destructive.
- Active campaigns to limit