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[Vent] I am not exhausted no more innovation please
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That’s a distinct shift I’ve noticed over the last couple decades; it used to be that keeping up on tech news and tech literacy went roughly hand in hand. First example that comes to mind is back when Mac OS X dropped, there was a lot of discussion in Apple spaces and media about it being built on a unix-type kernel and how to use the new terminal in the OS, unix commands and scripts to use.
It felt like things changed once smart devices started becoming prevalent. Tech developments, both from the developer side and the media side, stopped being about understanding and literacy and started being about hype cycles, FOMO. Like, don’t worry about the details or knowing what’s going on under the hood, you need to dive headfirst into whatever the tech bros are pushing or be left behind. AI being the most blatant example; you don’t need to know anything about what it’s doing, you just need to vibe.
That's crazy I ain't live long enough to remember such days but it sounds wonderful. Sad that I never got to live in that era.
It might just be technology itself becoming more prevalent. Impossible for so many laymen to really keep up with it all. I can't keep up with the thoughtful way of using all my tech and that's literally my chosen profession. At some point the world just becomes too overloaded for humans to keep up.
Yeah the specialization within tech has made it trickier to see the bigger pictures. I think it’s also because tech has gone from being a backend feature, the thing an industry uses behind the scenes to get the public-facing work done, to being the front and center, public-facing work itself.