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Hard to get excited when I already feel like I have more tech than I need. I feel like we've reached all the low hanging fruits of quality of life before the 90s (health/medical care, electricity, fridges, central heating, running water). Computers are nice, smartphones are convenient, google map is the 8th wonder of the world, but I feel like we're now going backwards, products are becoming more and more unrepairable, unreliable, complex, made to be consumed and discarded. We're in an age of infinitely small incremental updates to existing technologies.

It's also hard to get excited about gadgets when most of the real world issues are social or economical.

When I want to dream a bit I open an old book about medicine/chemistry/woodworking/metalsmithing/1900s inventions. Back in these days a single person could still take giant steps, nowadays progress is extremely slow and requires huge teams if not megacorps with unlimited amount of money.