i miss the old internet
tech, the future of tech, what’s changed, etc
i miss the old internet
Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:
“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of
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knowyourmeme.comControl and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do—take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.
Brian Eno
The internet—it seemed like such a good idea at the time.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus • Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral
“The way to manage your attention is not to ‘unplug’ or do some sort of bullshit Classical Liberal virtue signaling crap of ‘I only read Ancient Greek authors’ but to be sensitive to your current mind size and consciously target the zone you want to be in...
Matt Klein • Unplugging Is Not the Solution You Want
New World Same Humans | David Mattin | Substack
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Current state of tech