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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog wrote:
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to believe that the 2020s will be anything other than a "lost decade". Certainly as far as software is concerned, but more generally as well.
It seems like every day I read about how one of my peers has lost touch with reality, either voluntarily giving up their ability to think for themselves or developing an unhealthy dependence on their digital girlfriend that lives in the cloud.
There are so many genuinely useful things we could be doing with computers, but instead our institutions are overwhelmingly deciding to double down on surveillance and machines that persistently nudge people towards psychosis.
It seems like even if we were to broadly change course tomorrow, it would still take years to clean up all the mess that's already been made.