There's no doubt the Internet, the smartphone, and the miniaturization of compute and data storage have been the driving technological innovations that shaped society and culture over the past 30 years. The amount of capability and connectivity a person carries in their pocket is almost unfathomable and we think nothing of it.
And yet, as—
Everything from our phone to our refrigerator spies on us at every moment
Our appliances and machines break constantly and are impossible to maintain without an expensive microprocessor-infused custom part from the manufacturer
We can hardly engage with any aspect of society anymore without creating another account, another password, selling our identity and soul to another anonymousweb of exploitive strangers just so we can participate
Our social fabric has eroded and atomized as each human is drawn deeper and deeper into their own microcosm of addictively tuned algorithmic stimulation
—We can't help but think it's not worth it, our technology has gone very wrong and conquered our lives and minds, and we pine, desperately, for a simpler, more rugged, more disconnected time where our technology was a predicable piece of equipment, not an omnipresent all-consuming demon.