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I miss the pre-covid era when the chattering class didn't know anything about tech. So nice to not be the product of think-pieces and in the ire of NYT readers.

The "chattering classes" in general and NYT in particular have been writing think pieces about tech for decades [0] [1] [2] [3]. So I'm not sure what you're talking about and what COVID has to do with it.

[0]: About Facebook in 2014: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/opinion/jaron-lanier-on-l...

[1]: About the risks of the Internet for children in 2009: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/technology/personaltech/2...

[2]: About greedy dot-coms in 1998: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/27/magazine/fast-forward-gre...

[3]: About whether children need to learn computer literacy in 1984: https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/13/opinion/false-notions-abo...

Agree to disagree, then. I think the direction of the trend has been pretty clear and I'm an avid reader of the news, but it is a difficult thing to quantify in the aggregate.

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