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I love be a cyberdeck, but the idea that we'd all be running derivatives of '70s game firmware after 50 years of putative progress kind of puts lie to Gibson's

by jfb 4y ago

I love be a cyberdeck, but the idea that we'd all be running derivatives of '70s game firmware after 50 years of putative progress kind of puts lie to Gibson's futurism, which required a certain panache and optimism to technology that has clearly not come to pass.

mxuribe 4y ago
> ...we'd all be running... I think this is not an all or nothing sort of present that we live in...and i think maybe there will be some (maybe non-trivial) slice of the computing population who might - at least for some of the time and for some tasks/work - be quite interested in tools like cyberdeck. I have no hard data to support my claim of course, its only my opinion...and in fact my opinion is based on the popularity that i'm seeing with a tiny portion of tech entusiasts more and more interested in things like TUIs, command-line based tools, Gemini protocol and associated Gemini sites for engaging with content, etc. Maybe its just a cycle of 70s/80s computing nostalgia, or maybe its a reaction to the annoying consumer web (the lay web? the layperson web?) and all its bothersome bells and whistles, ads, privacy invasion, etc...?