I can’t find the device necessary to get images from my camera to my computer to this blog. I’ve written about that before and I still haven’t solved the problem. I don’t like to buy trivial things on the internet, I’m alright with speciality items; organic wool pillows, Japanese sashiko thread in bulk, organic pipe weed, but things that I ought to by right be able to buy disposably at a corner store? Well, I’d like to do just that.
I’m not certain why technology, diminuitive ancillary tech in particular, gets to live outside of my usual understanding of capitalism, but it does. I hate these little things that barely work and change fundamentally (but not functionally) every 18 months. USB, USB-2, USB-C...are these things improvements? USB-C feels faster, I guess, but my God I do not care at all. I’d rather have them get worse than have to think about them, they’re forced down our throats for no damned reason other than paying Apple more money.
I wonder what it was like to have to learn Email. To just be happily plodding along with your type writer or your word processor or your quill and for it to suddenly be required that you check this God forsaken website every day incase someone wants to sell you something or threaten you or tell you they love you or whatever. Of course there was enormous potential to earn a living in the early days of the internet... is that what we’re looking at with AI?
It’s this awful incremental distraction that we’ll likely all be obligated to use in a few years if we don’t want to be luddites, and right now you can make money using it? A bit disappointing, that.
My dogs don’t have to worry about email.
I’m not certain why technology, diminuitive ancillary tech in particular, gets to live outside of my usual understanding of capitalism, but it does. I hate these little things that barely work and change fundamentally (but not functionally) every 18 months. USB, USB-2, USB-C...are these things improvements? USB-C feels faster, I guess, but my God I do not care at all. I’d rather have them get worse than have to think about them, they’re forced down our throats for no damned reason other than paying Apple more money.
I wonder what it was like to have to learn Email. To just be happily plodding along with your type writer or your word processor or your quill and for it to suddenly be required that you check this God forsaken website every day incase someone wants to sell you something or threaten you or tell you they love you or whatever. Of course there was enormous potential to earn a living in the early days of the internet... is that what we’re looking at with AI?
It’s this awful incremental distraction that we’ll likely all be obligated to use in a few years if we don’t want to be luddites, and right now you can make money using it? A bit disappointing, that.
My dogs don’t have to worry about email.