Tech's next big thing
Louie Mantia in The Dystopian Dream Team:
Billionaires keep pretending like they’re doing research to find it, but I feel like we’re already living the dream. I can draw and write and create whatever I want, and publish it or send it to people around the world to see instantaneously. And I can access whatever everyone else shares instantly from my devices too. That’s the peak. We’re at the summit!
Computers and phones have stopped making the big leaps they once did. That’s fine! That’s okay. We did it! We largely accomplished the goals, maximizing what these objects should be. From here on out, big changes are no longer possible, nor are they necessary. These kinds of devices have reached the point where they have just joined refrigerators, washing machines, and microwaves.
I would like this to be true. We are living the dream.
But I both fear and feel that we're only getting started. That we're nearing a crossroads, where humans morph from biological creatures to biological-digital hybrids. I see people everywhere with phones glued to their hands and headphones permanently attached to their ears and wonder if we're not there already. Perhaps it's just the fine-tuning that comes next.