Nostalgia is eating us alive. Instead of building a new world, we’re regurgitating a past that never existed | Martin Ingle
www.theguardian.com
We want to go back to a time when we could drive our big cars and tease our hair – without thinking about the ozone or whatever
  • cerement@slrpnk.net
    19·
    30 days ago
    • Oregon Trail didn’t ask you for your cookie preferences
    • VisiCalc didn’t require an always on internet connection
    • WordStar didn’t auto-update and restart in the middle of an essay
    • Applesoft BASIC didn’t require a fully provisioned S3 instance
    • Impulse Tracker didn’t try to feed your composition to an LLM
  • meyotch@slrpnk.net
    10·
    30 days ago

    I have zero nostalgia. Good memories, yes. But I am hopeful that we could, if enough of us agree, build something better than has ever been before.

    I can enjoy generational pandering like Ready Player One and I still want to get a TRS-80 Model III (it outsold the Apple II!) and connect a pi zero to the serial port to connect to a self-hosted LLM trained to respond like MuThUr 6000 from Alien.

    But no way in hell do I want to go back to that era.

  • Obinice@lemmy.world
    2·
    30 days ago

    So, we’re doing what every generation before us has done, cool. At least we’re consistent!

  • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
    1·
    30 days ago

    The fact that we’re just going in circles if I have no idea is his proof that the old way of life is I’m coming to an end. We’re still in the waiting. Between the old world and the new