Oh yes, I have my eyes on the future. It ain't the cheery future described by Extremely Online (although even that book mentions the ugly but not enough, not b

Oh yes, I have my eyes on the future. It ain't the cheery future described by Extremely Online (although even that book mentions the ugly but not enough, not by far). Not, it's the future of platform decay (to use a more polite word for enshittification) and Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other... To be closer to topic , let me quote Paris Marx's excellent summary from his Apple Vision Pro preview https://disconnect.blog/apples-vision-pro-headset-deserves/ https://disconnect.blog/apples-vision-pro-headset-deserves/ > Tech companies want us isolated and constantly staring at screens because it drives profit and of course > The Vision Pro lets users further separate themselves from their surroundings and even create “digital personas” for video calls so other people are talking to a digital, abstracted version of themselves instead of seeing the real person. Even The Verge acknowledges: > using the Vision Pro is such a lonely experience, regardless of the weird ghost eyes on the front. Oh yes, I have my eyes on the future and I am bloody unhappy about it.