| you, my friend, are taking the 21st century for granted. we already live in the future. When you grow up believing you will be driving flying cars and seeing robots help you around the house, how else are you supposed to feel? we have flying cars. they're called private jets, but most people can't afford them. we have to take the flying bus! we've had robots in our homes for a while. do they have to be anthropomorphic to count, or what? I am also disappointed in how closed and centralized the applications that run on the internet have become since the internet was privatized. Where we used to have decentralized systems in the 80s to late 90s, we now have huge star (wheel and spoke) networks. internet applications may be closed and centralized, but i think you are forgetting about the mountains of free/open software that those systems are built upon. life-changing mountains of software. foss is the foundation that a lot of careers (including my own) are built upon. obviously it would be better if we were all on an open source distributed net, but its not like it isn't a solvable problem. we just have to be more creative. We have invented the most important tool in the history of humanity and it's being used by billions of people to look at Facebook instead of say, solving real problems like climate change. the internet is a communication network that people use for a lot of different things, including working to solve climate change. i don't think we've figured out social networking quite yet. or the internet for that matter. i think its all quite exciting! so much new shit happening all of the time. not only that, but i have the opportunity to be a part of it. i may not be the person that ends up in the history books, but i'm here at ground zero. |