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This really seems to give words to a feeling that I've had, which is that technology has been steadily getting worse - i.e. less useful and more user-hostile -

This really seems to give words to a feeling that I've had, which is that technology has been steadily getting worse - i.e. less useful and more user-hostile - over the past decade or so. It's too bad, because there was some amazing product creativity going on in the past, and the future really did seem bright. But I feel not that we missed out on an imagined future, but that we are actually going backwards - thanks to enshittification and this perverse incentive structure.

seabass-labrax 3y ago
There's a hidden optimism even in this. If some technology (often open source and hobbyist-developed) is getting better despite a fraction of the funding of mainstream commercial technology products, think what we could do if somehow there was an enlightenment either of software users or developers to eliminate the 'Marl' state.