The mainstream commercialisation of tech may be tedious, but life on the tinkering fringes is about as exciting and engaging as ever. There's a lot more noise

The mainstream commercialisation of tech may be tedious, but life on the tinkering fringes is about as exciting and engaging as ever. There's a lot more noise to filter out, of course. Perhaps that falls under "careful what you wish for" - that is, as 80's/90's youngsters we all wished that the world was more tech and computer -centric. Well, we got our wish.