Technology

Price are rocket high and salary still the same. Added on that vapor tech products. It is not surprising that the tech rush is over.

We're broke you assholes! We can't give you money for gadgets with money we don't have!

Somewhere along the line they went from creating goods and services that people could use to improve their lives, to dreaming up some dystopian futuristic bullshit, then using their control over technology, governments, and media to make that dream a reality.

We went from, "here's some cool tech we built, you should buy it because it's awesome and we'll make some money" to "how do we screw every last cent out of our customers whilst providing the bare minimum?"

A 1 hour conversation? Anybody got a Too Long Didnt Listen?

Good, they're just scamming at this point.

I was talking to my daughter yesterday about H. G. Wells and the one film he wrote the screenplay for, the 1936 film Things to Come.

In the film, a great world war starts in 1940 with an air attack on Britain (surprisingly prescient, but the rest isn't). The war lasts until 1970 until Britain is completely destroyed and petty dictators rule tiny patches of land in the wastes. But men of science return to Britain and rebuild it as a scientific utopia.

Wells was a scientific technocrat. He thought that scientists should be in charge of things because there was nothing technology could do that wouldn't eventually lift humanity up and bring about a paradise on Earth...

So why did he also write The Time Machine, where everything falls apart and humanity splits into two species, both unintelligent? Because he was also a socialist and he saw what capitalism and the class system was doing to the world (The War of the Worlds was also about this, a critique of Western colonialism).

So over 100 years ago, H. G. Wells was telling us that we were on a path to either scientific utopia or destruction due to our embracing old modes of thinking.

What would he have made of capitalists using technology to end civilization?

This is literally already what “bleeding edge” meant and means.

The only future they have been selling the whole time is like ghost in the shell or psycho pass but somehow worse and with more and worse crime and depression and no suspenseful drama or epic action scenes.

What future? They were selling us a Warhammer dystopia rather than glorious halo or something cool. Useless tech clowns

Good, open the market for true innovation.