Tech optimism of the late 90s was a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_utopianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_utopianism We were

Tech optimism of the late 90s was a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_utopianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_utopianism We were going to solve all the world's problems with file sharing via the internet. (Oh, to be young again...) Tech naiveté is perhaps a better description but it did exist, especially in San Francisco. "During the late 1990s dot-com boom, when the speculative bubble gave rise to claims that an era of "permanent prosperity" had arrived, techno-utopianism flourished, typically among the small percentage of the population who were employees of Internet startups and/or owned large quantities of high-tech stocks. With the subsequent crash, many of these dot-com techno-utopians had to rein in some of their beliefs in the face of the clear return of traditional economic reality."