[fxtentacle]

I'm not cynical, but my relationship with technology has surely become adversarial.

I still remember the days when self-driving cars seemed just around the corner and inevitable. When Google was organizing the world's information and ethically pure. When I trusted software to do the right thing.

But nowadays... Good luck finding any trustworthy megacorp. We've commoditized trust for profits (e.g. from Couchsurfing to AirBnB) and the result is that people became less trusting.

[johnny22]

> I still remember the days when self-driving cars seemed just around the corner and inevitable.

Inevitable or not.. I did not consider the other things this would enable. like mass surveillance! I thought it was going to be a relationship between me and my car. I did not realize the relationship was actually me, my car, and the company tracking my every move.

That is how my relationship with tech became adversarial.