Techocalypse

Instantaneous access to everything obviously comes at a cost. The cost being that we all behave like demented Roman emperors, at once bored and deranged, summoning whatever we want at any time.

What does it tell us about progress if the most influential technological innovation of the century is clearly destroying lives on a massive scale?

Two years later, I’m still asked about them. People want to know: Did they stay on the Luddite path? Or were they dragged back into the tech abyss?

AI now promises results without the reckoning, but frictionless creation leads to weightless rewards

“if your new software no longer runs on old hardware, it is worse than the old software.”

This is what a frictionless world looks like. Everything accelerates, until you forget what it means to try.

I personally think it makes people less attractive, authentic and worth connecting to. Anything that strips us of our imperfections is missing the point. The AI images, music and video are another. Of note, I actually think the meme uses are fine (it’s entertainment, not art, and that’s something else).