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"Daddy daddy, what do you think the future will be like?"
"Oh I think it will be wonderful: flying cars, more understanding of our neighbors, space travel, cures for diseases, people will live more comfortable easy lives!"
The future: fascists, racist robots, billionaires, more fascists, bombing civilians, cutting science funding, the earth is on fire, more fascists, cutting HIV study funding, more racist robots, gutting artistic employment, more billionaires, fried donuts.
I guess it's not all terrible, just mostly.
I remember the 90s early 2000s when it felt like we were sort of all going in the right direction and technology would help build a better future.
But then again, history always goes in cycles and it would be reasonable to expect information technology to (initially?) lead to really bad outcomes, just like with industrialization and WW1/WW2.
It took the horrors of the two world wars for people to get out of their stupor.
90’s Internet: would you like to play chess with someone from across the globe? You could learn about their culture and how much you have in common!
Users: no thanks, I’m busy making racist videos using this energy hungry AI tool.
TBH, everything always goes to crap when the powers that be defund education. Lack of historical understanding always leads to the same result.
I honestly kind of hate that I grew up in the 90s... Born mid 80s and was old enough in the 90s to have my childhood engrained with this idea that the future was all progress from there on out. Then the 2000s come along with a big ol' middle finger and it's just been fascists all the way down and economic decline from there. :/
Same shit here.
I am the same age as you and I feel you.
But then again, I guess it's up to us to make a contribution to a better world (like the one from our childhood imagintations).
Nothing comes easy.
Not economic decline; spiraling inequality. Which is even worse, in some important ways.
That is economic decline. That someone's line goes up in all relative units on a graph doesn't mean it's growth.
We were going in that direction with too much trust and enthusiasm.
Then humongous corps played along to these emotions, while building something that wasn't considered normal in the rest of the economy for many decades.
OK, honestly I'm tired of this shit, I think I'm going to start making toys of my own making in some scripting language to illustrate how it should work, not thinking about real world use. I've made one, I won't show it to anyone, but the fact that it worked at all is nice, I guess.
I couldn't force myself try starting on the latest idea, because it involves too much of "probably need something like". Maybe I should just assume those parts as unreliable good-trust connections, as it was done with most of the real web model.
Unfortunately we got this future Biff:
Oh boy donuts