How about struggling but still extant written internet journalists? “Dumb” or simplified smart phones or e-ink devices? Modern iPod clones? The upcoming Slate car? A local LLM/voice assistant?
There are tons of neat alternatives to tech bros, the problem is attention. People just don’t know about them, so they don’t hit critical mass.
…I don’t have a good solution to this, but the attention economy is broke and following the herd is not working anymore. And there are solutions better than going backwards, but no mental energy to find them.
Who needs an iPod clone when you can literally buy an iPod, drop 1Tb of storage in it, and sync it to your library like you always could.
It’s stupidly easy to do, and those things are still rock solid. And you can put Rockbox on too, if you don’t want iTunes anywhere near your computer. Or you use Linux and can’t have iTunes.
The junk products are not the problem, they will be phased out in a few years anyway, like all the ones before them.
The problem is the political system that is completely subservient to corporations that allows them to create accepted social standards like “you have to have the newest phone and a computer to even dream of getting a job interview” or the manufactured consent that much of America adheres to that things like social programs, welfare and universal basic income are tools of the devil.
Or the epidemic of planned-obsolescence that every last democrat and republican representative profits from as much as the tech-barons they work for. Other countries have laws about making products that last so citizens don’t have to spend their every last dime to just to keep having basic appliances and connection to the world.
If we made a unified push to install representatives that also want a better world and aren’t blithering morons who want to get rich, it would go a long ways to healing the system, but I don’t know how that’s going to happen since we all allowed our population to also become blithering morons.
With the recent destruction of PBS and their associated programs, this is going to get even worse. But don’t worry, kids will be able to ask Grok for history facts.
How about struggling but still extant written internet journalists? “Dumb” or simplified smart phones or e-ink devices? Modern iPod clones? The upcoming Slate car? A local LLM/voice assistant?
There are tons of neat alternatives to tech bros, the problem is attention. People just don’t know about them, so they don’t hit critical mass.
…I don’t have a good solution to this, but the attention economy is broke and following the herd is not working anymore. And there are solutions better than going backwards, but no mental energy to find them.
Who needs an iPod clone when you can literally buy an iPod, drop 1Tb of storage in it, and sync it to your library like you always could.
It’s stupidly easy to do, and those things are still rock solid. And you can put Rockbox on too, if you don’t want iTunes anywhere near your computer. Or you use Linux and can’t have iTunes.
The junk products are not the problem, they will be phased out in a few years anyway, like all the ones before them.
The problem is the political system that is completely subservient to corporations that allows them to create accepted social standards like “you have to have the newest phone and a computer to even dream of getting a job interview” or the manufactured consent that much of America adheres to that things like social programs, welfare and universal basic income are tools of the devil.
Or the epidemic of planned-obsolescence that every last democrat and republican representative profits from as much as the tech-barons they work for. Other countries have laws about making products that last so citizens don’t have to spend their every last dime to just to keep having basic appliances and connection to the world.
If we made a unified push to install representatives that also want a better world and aren’t blithering morons who want to get rich, it would go a long ways to healing the system, but I don’t know how that’s going to happen since we all allowed our population to also become blithering morons.
With the recent destruction of PBS and their associated programs, this is going to get even worse. But don’t worry, kids will be able to ask Grok for history facts.