I think you'll find that to some extent in the manufacture-on-demand scene. There's a lot of interesting stuff happening. Same goes for custom electronics, ther

I think you'll find that to some extent in the manufacture-on-demand scene. There's a lot of interesting stuff happening. Same goes for custom electronics, there's a lot of really interesting hobbyist projects. Biotech is on the edge of getting there. The ML scene is currently absolutely bonkers. There are plenty of hacker culture areas, they just aren't the same as the 90's and 00's. Neither were the 90's the same as the 80's. In fact, I'd argue the 00's were nothing like the 90's either. The spaces are there. You'll need to abandon the thing you know. (And for many of us, that's hard, because the thing we know is also feeding us - but that, too, was always true)