[a-french-anon]

No, you're jumping to conclusions. if I put Google or Amazon in the "bad" bin, it's because I don't think all those technological advances (everything considered) make the world a better or more interesting place. I mean: AI? Cloud? Is this really the future you wanted?

In my eyes, advances in FEM simulation is what you can really argue for when talking about "support for builders of meatspace things".

[vlovich123]

I’m not jumping to conclusions. I think you’re discounting just how much companies rely on virtual technologies to enable them to build meatspace things more quickly and cheaply or to do simulation testing more quickly and cheaply.

And yes, cloud is definitely towards the future I want where I can easily spin up infrastructure to enable some project rather than having to figure out reliable hosting for myself from scratch every time. Cloudflare Workers are actually closer to what I want than the vision AWS and Google enable but it’s not as full featured yet and it wouldn’t exist without AWS creating the market in the first place. Of course there are issues around privacy of data and trusted compute that aren’t solved yet vs local, but the cost savings and simplicity va having to manage hardware (which I’ve also done ) are real.