It has actually disappeared. The culture the author grew up with is dead and it’s not coming back. He says in the article that he felt both like he was on the

It has actually disappeared. The culture the author grew up with is dead and it’s not coming back. He says in the article that he felt both like he was on the forefront of technology and that he had control over it. Now being on the forefront of technology means staring right into existential horrors like AI, global warming, predatory consumerism, and the death of privacy. You can’t just go back to pretending 8-bit computers are new and the future is bright. The author wrote a short piece that was 90% about his feelings; incredible to me how many people in the thread simply ignored that and went right to criticizing technical inaccuracy