Reading this makes me feel so much sorrow for the generations that have grown up this way. As a 60-something who worked in the technology field in the 1980s and 1990s, I feel like an Internet pioneer. The world described in the essay is not the world we imagined, but that’s because we originally hoped the Internet would be a way of connecting people together, and not corporations. And while we thought we foresaw the impact of the “dotcoms” on our old network of individuals’ computers, our imagination was insufficient to see just how those corporations would take over our creation.
Despite that my early pioneer days, I ended up changing careers to natural resources and spent 25 years studying and working in the conservation field. I explicitly rejected the concept of advertising, and my job performance was measured by acres of land protected and acres of rare species habitat restored. I moved to a small rural town and simplified my life as much as possible (while also building a fiber optic network for our town). In the meantime, apparently the world has gone on changing without my noticing.
Reading about the different experience the author has lived through feels almost like reading a science fiction dystopia. I guess all I can say is, I’m sorry. This is not the world we meant to create. We should have done better.
Brian Hawthorne /
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2024-09-21 16:44:13
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