I Don’t Get Excited About Tech Anymore
What was once the rollout of curious innovations has now become a question of what kinds of spyware and predatory models are being forced on us now.
Once upon a time, I was a 16-year-old computer geek who longed for this very iBook in the cover photo. It was a time when anything nerdy was incredibly stigmatized, even in NYC’s punk and metal scenes. Mike Virus from The Virus was considered an outlier and I loved that he was making it more acceptable for us to embrace that side of ourselves, nowadays people like us don’t even get a second glance. In fact, it’s been revealed that a huge portion of the infosec world is basically held up by alternative folk, and furries maintain the infrastructure we rely on.
Nevertheless, long before we had discussions of remote work versus being forced to come into an office, I knew it was common with software and game devs in California. I dreamt of yeeting those long schleps from The Bronx or New Jersey and getting to live in the Village proper. I’d take this iBook with me to coffee shops around the alternative quarter where I’d work on epic RPGs and adventure games, write music and games columns, and be charmed by similarly alternative men who also knew Visual Basic as well as they knew Biohazard albums before seeing who…
