goatsarah
We are rushing headlong into technodickensianism.
This is not the future we thought we were building in the 90s tech industry. We thought we were going to help people. What we built could have been used to help people, but it’s not. It’s being used as a misery amplifier on a massive scale.
I’m so sorry.
goatsarah
@FeralRobots I was 21 and being "on the grid" meant using payphone, realistically. The internet at that point was pre google, and the idea of just being able to use a satellite navigation system, text messaging and email when out and about seemed utterly transformative.
I was naive.
FeralRobots
@goatsarah It's pretty frustrating for me. I twigged to the Californian Ideology pretty early; pointed out often that anything which empowered the grass roots also empowered the powerful, if they were smart enough to leverage it. Which they were. I saw no evidence people were actually using the net to do the empowering things they said they wanted to do, but people were too happy to roll their dice on dotcom payouts.
I got a career out of it so at one level I guess I shouldn't complain.
datarama
@goatsarah @FeralRobots I was 16 when I first used the internet in the mid-90s. I'd already been programming since I was a little kid with a C64, and it felt like the future was going to be great. I ended up spending most of my career as a CS teacher before transitioning back into industry a year ago. I like my job as a perfectly boring industrial embedded dev, but tech in general feels like a bleak Misery Optimizer.
If there's a full-scale tech backlash, the industry deserves it.
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