Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.::After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.
The entire article is just an ad for a blog that doesn’t exist yet… The irony is unbearable.
Crazy how many up votes this article has. It’s like everyone is just agreeing with the headline without even bothering to check.
No? It’s a cover page for an hour long podcast episode. Not that that’s much better, as I am certainly not going to set aside time for that, but it’s not “just an ad for a blog that doesn’t exist yet”.
Exactly, to the layperson they need an explanation about the AI-washing fad amongst others. It surprises me how many people don’t know about the Google graveyard. The Stadia launch is still fresh on my memory with how it was suppose to be the next major step forward.
When we hear about the next major step forward so many times…but as for this blog post, it’s almost as though they want to have the comments write the blog for them based on a superficial notion. Just like big tech.
We went from, “here’s some cool tech we built, you should buy it because it’s awesome and we’ll make some money” to “how do we screw every last cent out of our customers whilst providing the bare minimum?”
While sterling all their data
Ok but can we talk about that cookies popup? Yikes
I mean, isn’t that the better way of doing it? One popup, exains everything, gives you the option to opt out in that popup instead of going through settings and shit.
I think it’s intentionally wordy and the opt-out is “on” by default. I am usually instinctively just trying to hit the “off” button as quickly as possible and hitting save so I can get rid of the window, without actually reading anything. I almost certainly would have accidentally opted in to third party tracking.
I fully admit I might just be dumb though.
It could be less wordy, it isn’t perfect. I have definitely run into ones that require going through multiple layers of settings though, so this just seems a lot less bullshit than that.
Looking at the image again, default to not sharing while calling that ‘on’ and being slightly awkward is definitely not an accident and is probably designed to trick people paying no attention at all.
I took a look at the website provided and holy shit there are a lot of downstream providers. And when i click on the link for the first site I immediately get a pop-up warning from ublock.
Yeah it’s ridiculous. And the wording on the cookie popup is confusing af.
It is. I thought It would let you opt out at that site. Nope you have to go to each of the leech sites individually and of course they are going to make it difficult as hell to opt out if they even allow it at all.
Thats even worse than i thought
We’re broke you assholes! We can’t give you money for gadgets with money we don’t have!
What future? They were selling us a Warhammer dystopia rather than glorious halo or something cool. Useless tech clowns
Good, open the market for true innovation.
That’s not what’s happening.
Now it’s just ‘open the market for VCs to suck the good out of everything they can’
I have verifiably never been active military or served in Nam but the first thought that came to my head was Veit Cong.
I’d argue Venture Capitalists have done more damage to the world than the Vietcong ever did.
Always was
Before Neoliberalism, VC type investing was done with a view for the future.
Nowadays it’s all ‘drain the value, dump the husk, move on to the next startup’.
It’s parasitic and on a scale never before seen in human history.
Before Neoliberalism, VC type investing was done with a view for the future.
Who were the VCs of the 19th century?
Bad, horrible, revisionist take. The idiots now are the same as the idiots then, they just were your heroes so you don’t want to hear it.
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Omg, it’s becoming self aware!
I was talking to my daughter yesterday about H. G. Wells and the one film he wrote the screenplay for, the 1936 film Things to Come.
In the film, a great world war starts in 1940 with an air attack on Britain (surprisingly prescient, but the rest isn’t). The war lasts until 1970 until Britain is completely destroyed and petty dictators rule tiny patches of land in the wastes. But men of science return to Britain and rebuild it as a scientific utopia.
Wells was a scientific technocrat. He thought that scientists should be in charge of things because there was nothing technology could do that wouldn’t eventually lift humanity up and bring about a paradise on Earth…
So why did he also write The Time Machine, where everything falls apart and humanity splits into two species, both unintelligent? Because he was also a socialist and he saw what capitalism and the class system was doing to the world (The War of the Worlds was also about this, a critique of Western colonialism).
So over 100 years ago, H. G. Wells was telling us that we were on a path to either scientific utopia or destruction due to our embracing old modes of thinking.
What would he have made of capitalists using technology to end civilization?
Good, they’re just scamming at this point.
