I think you need to separate "tech" from "web". I don't mean that in the sense of the "every company is a tech company" now, but more along the lines of there b

I think you need to separate "tech" from "web". I don't mean that in the sense of the "every company is a tech company" now, but more along the lines of there being so many threads of tech. I'm a believer in Web3, though I completely understand people who are not. We'll just have to see where that plays out. Most of my time is spent in neurotech. Fascinating stuff, and opportunity to have a huge impact on the lives of billions of people. We're specifically focused on sleep. Wearables and sensors is also a fascinating area. AI isn't just used to server you better advertisements. There's AI in health tech improving patient diagnosis, and will bring the cost of health care down (except in the US). AI is also used in engineering and design to help reduce material use. You say the quality of streaming content is going down, and I tend to agree, but I also think these things go in waves, so I don't think storytelling is broken forever. But on the other side of media creation, how about the incredible CGI we have and how that is becoming more accessible to more people. I do like your examples of Social Media and Amazon. I am mostly post-consumerist, and only purchase kindle books from Amazon. I used to be a big fan of Facebook, but most people I know have stopped posting, so it wasn't interesting anymore. We don't need more "things" from Amazon, I hope people move to having fewer, better things. I think Social Media is an ongoing experiment. It will still exist in the future, but I'm not sure we'll recognize it as we do today. I see so many people moving to tiktok, which as far as I can tell is a different experience to our older social medias. So, in general, you're right to be jaded about the things you mentioned, but I also think we'll look back at this time as the golden age. Web2 was like early industrialization, we're learning the lessons from that, we still have lots of work to do.