I thought I was living in the future. I'm not sure anymore that I was.
You were. But the future got hijacked along the way.
I had the same thought about living in the future around 2007 when I was on a hydrofoil skimming across the South China Sea doing payroll on my SonyEricsson M600c. I thought "the future is going to be great!" It isn't.
As a kid in the early 90s, I remember staying up late to watch the news and there were specials about upcoming technology. I think it was close to the end of the year and they were going over what was in the works for the next year.
It was an exciting time, and I cherish those warm memories, that feeling of a wide open future that I was going to be a part of.
It feels like I got screwed out of those dreams.
Technology framed my life - I loved all of it! Computers, programming, videogames, taking everything I could apart and trying to figure it out and fix it when it failed. I eventually got into IT, and have had a good career.
The last couple years - it feels like it's all being taken away. There's a lot more to say, but I wasn't really planning on a super long rant here. Maybe I just wish the enshittification of it all had an ending that didn't feel so bleak.
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Back when I had VNC of my desktop on my Palm Tungsten T3, I thought I was living in the future. I'm not sure anymore that I was.
I thought I was living in the future. I'm not sure anymore that I was.
You were. But the future got hijacked along the way.
I had the same thought about living in the future around 2007 when I was on a hydrofoil skimming across the South China Sea doing payroll on my SonyEricsson M600c. I thought "the future is going to be great!" It isn't.
As a kid in the early 90s, I remember staying up late to watch the news and there were specials about upcoming technology. I think it was close to the end of the year and they were going over what was in the works for the next year.
It was an exciting time, and I cherish those warm memories, that feeling of a wide open future that I was going to be a part of.
It feels like I got screwed out of those dreams.
Technology framed my life - I loved all of it! Computers, programming, videogames, taking everything I could apart and trying to figure it out and fix it when it failed. I eventually got into IT, and have had a good career.
The last couple years - it feels like it's all being taken away. There's a lot more to say, but I wasn't really planning on a super long rant here. Maybe I just wish the enshittification of it all had an ending that didn't feel so bleak.