It’s because the curve of innovation in technology has almost leveled off. AI/LLMs are where the money is currently going so that’s being innovated on, for better or worse. But most everything else are very tiny incremental changes.
I haven’t really been excited about tech since the iPad was announced. There just hasn’t been much else. Even what is being called AI doesn’t really fascinate me because of how much everyone seems to be bandwagoning and wasting billions of dollars on what is essentially a series of statistical models that will always have a margin of error.
Humans are in a stagnation period in many respects. It’s happened before and we’ll push through it at some point.
Ar still isn’t here, not the form they marketted years ago with magic leap. I still want proper ar more than anything. I like playing with blender and game engines, I want to make magic irl, ar is the only options.
You need to take this cure….
Back in the day a group of people decided to capture the stories and wisdom of the Appalachian Mountains. The results was a serious of books that make for some good reading. It shows how things use to be done so you might be interested. All the books should be available in the library systems.
Here are some other links you may be interested in. Lehmans is a big supplier to the amish.
https://www.notechmagazine.com/
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
https://products.bigfrogmountain.com/shop/home.php
Maturity is realising that technology is another form of consumerism, and that the world needs active participants - not consumerists- to make it a better one.
I don’t know after having seen some of the stuff on offer and being exhibited at Defcon id say there’s plenty to be excited about.
Please share some things.
I’m just going to quote one of my favorite authors:
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
I stopped being excited well before 35. I just expect everything thing new to be enshttified to hell. I can’t even find an upgrade to the mouse I bought 10 years ago.
Is it actually new? Or is it just a minor revamp of an existing technology?
