Centralization
Everything in my lifetime has trended towards centralization. I think we've hit our limit.
Never Forgive Them
It is difficult, I think, to account for the trends of recent years where people have been "lost" to the algorithm. Friends, family members, former heroes, with brains rotted away systemically, and unrecoverable. And Zitron describes exactly how.
The average person’s experience with technology is one so aggressive and violative that I believe it leaves billions of people with a consistent low-grade trauma. We seem, as a society, capable of understanding that social media can hurt us, unsettle us, or make us feel crazed and angry, but I think it’s time to accept that the rest of the tech ecosystem undermines our wellbeing in an equally-insidious way. And most people don’t know it’s happening, because everybody has accepted deeply shitty conditions for the last ten years.