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There are tons of live improvements from my point of view, but the few downsides that exist today make it worse in overall. The main downside I see is: - big t

There are tons of live improvements from my point of view, but the few downsides that exist today make it worse in overall. The main downside I see is: - big tech companies are becoming so powerful that they will interfere in our daily lives through tech (because tech is everywhere) and there is little we can do about it we want it or not. You cannot escape Google/Microsoft/Facebook/whatever. You just can't (unless you go full offline, but then the tech live improvements since the 90s go away as well).

sixothree 5y ago
I got Pong as a kid (specifically Telstar Marksman) and I have been 100% all in since that day. Every doubling and incremental change has been exciting to me. The way technology today is implemented repulses me. The surveillance, gamification, addition psychology all seem so unrecognized by the public but have made me less interested. But for me the biggest grievance is the poorly working software. So tired of it. So so tired.
dntrkv 5y ago
> You cannot escape Google/Microsoft/Facebook/whatever. This is such nonsense. There are more alternatives now than ever. Name any service provided by FANAMNGS (or whatever acronym we're using today) and there are many alternatives. Shit we even have viable alternatives to iPhones and Androids. Now if you need AWS level quality of service, you're gonna have to use a service provided by a company that has the means to provide that level of service. The difference is, 20 years ago, that level of service was just not available to your average person/company. If you're talking about social media, then yeah, social media NETWORKS rely on having everyone on the same platform. It's easier than ever to host your own Geocities equivalent, if that's what you wanna do for some reason.
- sdevonoes 5y ago
  So, I'll give my point of view: - all the employers I ever had either used Google or Microsoft suite of tools (e.g., gmail, office, etc.) - my family uses WhatsApp, and they give a damn whether Facebook becomes Big Brother or not So there you have two aspects of my life (big ones) where I cannot escape the big corporations.

sixothree 5y ago

I got Pong as a kid (specifically Telstar Marksman) and I have been 100% all in since that day. Every doubling and incremental change has been exciting to me. The way technology today is implemented repulses me. The surveillance, gamification, addition psychology all seem so unrecognized by the public but have made me less interested. But for me the biggest grievance is the poorly working software. So tired of it. So so tired.

dntrkv 5y ago

> You cannot escape Google/Microsoft/Facebook/whatever. This is such nonsense. There are more alternatives now than ever. Name any service provided by FANAMNGS (or whatever acronym we're using today) and there are many alternatives. Shit we even have viable alternatives to iPhones and Androids. Now if you need AWS level quality of service, you're gonna have to use a service provided by a company that has the means to provide that level of service. The difference is, 20 years ago, that level of service was just not available to your average person/company. If you're talking about social media, then yeah, social media NETWORKS rely on having everyone on the same platform. It's easier than ever to host your own Geocities equivalent, if that's what you wanna do for some reason.

sdevonoes 5y ago
So, I'll give my point of view: - all the employers I ever had either used Google or Microsoft suite of tools (e.g., gmail, office, etc.) - my family uses WhatsApp, and they give a damn whether Facebook becomes Big Brother or not So there you have two aspects of my life (big ones) where I cannot escape the big corporations.