• 4am@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Stuff like this makes me wish technology reached its peak in 2004

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      3 months ago

      It can be confidently argued that the western American empire and it’s related industries (software and the Internet included) peaked in the 90s. We had a bit of hang time at the top and now it’s been free fall since around 2004.

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          3 months ago

          Honestly it was pretty obvious coming up to y2k that it’d be the last generation of kids that had the same standard of living as their parents…

          William Gibson and the entire cyberpunk genre pretty much nailed that stuff from day one. It was supposed to a warning though. Not a playbook.