@tomw
This hit me yesterday... I think tech peaked in the late 90s and early 00s but the before and after is very different... Technology was growing until then and just getting better but somewhere in the late 00s and especially 10s we saw that technology hijacked and diluted for short term profit. There are so many cool projects people here on Mastodon are working on... Things very worthy of the 90s/00s but a lack of interest from, let's say "management". Things that the world genuinely wants but will never get to see because corporate mentality sees too much investment and too long for returns when they can just slap an AI sticker on whatever they are already doing and market the hell out of the thing that no one really wants.... Or just sneakily collect data and sell it for a huge profit.

That got a little more ranty then I intended 😂