But for a while now, and especially these past 12 months, I’ve become tired of what the tech world has to offer.
Tech runs the world now. (The 7 richest people on earth are tech bros entrepreneurs.) It is everywhere. Most everything feels like it’s tech now. That, per se, is not something that bothers me, but it’s what the tech world deems “interesting” that annoys me.
God damn I loved reading this piece this weekend.
Kevin hits the nail on the head of something I’ve been feeling eating at me for some time, that I’m just so tired of what this has all become.
I think about what I was passionate about growing up: tech, video games, movies, comics — they drove me, and made me happy. Each new advancement, each new next step was amazing.
A computer in my pocket, online multiplayer, the Marvel Cinematic Universe…they all seemed impossible at a point, and we have it all.
…and instead of feeling like I’ve won, I feel like I’ve been stuffed full, and the world is asking me why I’m not still licking the plate clean.
I think it’s that so much of it has become, to use the word the kids love these days, slop. I’m supposed to be the piggy just digging away, buying the new, the next, accepting the 25th installment of a movie franchise, seeing movies because I go “HEY I RECOGNIZE THING” and that’s the only dopamine center worth digging into. And generative AI, well, that’s the perfect example here, a project designed specifically to just redo what’s been done before, again and again, predictably.
I’m tired of it. And I have to find the fire again. Hence, this.