There have been few signs for hope and yet my hope persists, that eventually computing will open up more. Some kind of alive software will get mass attention &

There have been few signs for hope and yet my hope persists, that eventually computing will open up more. Some kind of alive software will get mass attention & be appealing, and there'll be some crashing wave of interest in actually bringing human and computer closer together rather than building higher higher towers of dead software. It feels like we are flitting further away from that which makes people grand, making man a toolmaker & owner. Technology's Prescriptive application keeps being used to leverage people while it's Holistic side that allows symbiotic growth is ignored, to use Ursala Franklin terms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin#Holistic_and_prescriptive_technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin#Holistic_and_p...). We're drifting away from what should be empowering us, from the greatest potential source of liberty & thought we have access to. I can acknowledge that AI has some ability to offer people means and knowledge, that it can be used to make things. But like the author, I mainly see it as sad and unfortunate, something utterly out of reach & obscure & indecipherable. Monkeys beating on monoliths shit.