This was a beautiful, nostalgic, painful read. But in a way, it makes me more angry. I assume that although there could be a Great Logging Off, there will still be enough fondness or utility to use social media sparingly. Even if not, the infrastructure will still exist, and if either DIT or Boring Apocalypse is correct, it means that we…
This was a beautiful, nostalgic, painful read. But in a way, it makes me more angry. I assume that although there could be a Great Logging Off, there will still be enough fondness or utility to use social media sparingly. Even if not, the infrastructure will still exist, and if either DIT or Boring Apocalypse is correct, it means that we are wasting obscene amounts of resources that we can't afford to waste, all on a demented simulacrum that is kept alive likely because economists will decide it still Generates Value. Plus, the infrastructure will still allow corporations and governments to monitor your every move, even if you no longer participate to any extent - not playing does not turn out to be a winning move in this case. Ceding that territory, however toxic, feels just as much a mistake as holding ground there.
This was a beautiful, nostalgic, painful read. But in a way, it makes me more angry. I assume that although there could be a Great Logging Off, there will still be enough fondness or utility to use social media sparingly. Even if not, the infrastructure will still exist, and if either DIT or Boring Apocalypse is correct, it means that we are wasting obscene amounts of resources that we can't afford to waste, all on a demented simulacrum that is kept alive likely because economists will decide it still Generates Value. Plus, the infrastructure will still allow corporations and governments to monitor your every move, even if you no longer participate to any extent - not playing does not turn out to be a winning move in this case. Ceding that territory, however toxic, feels just as much a mistake as holding ground there.