I think a pendulum is swinging in a different direction now as well.
Over the last 20 years or so, it seems like the smartest of us were spending our careers and lives building a better nervous system for the planet in the form of popularizing the internet and building services that connect to it.
Now that we seem to be in a good place with all that, and the pendulum seems to be swinging back to a more...physical place with work in self-driving cars, medicine, space, etc.
I think it's fantastic. The best photo taking app in the world won't drive me to a space port where I can catch a ride to Mars.
And I'm glad there are some grass roots springing up on the well-tread physical planes. It's great that people are springing their own means here.
I pray to my gods every day that the net too starts springing up some grass roots to show for itself. This "nervous system"'s origins were the smart and the dreamers, but it's meteoric rise into the cloud has gotten it further and further away from being a thing people know and touch and can handle for themselves. I hope it's not too long for the net to spring it's own grass roots, and for people to feel the netgrass beneath their feet.
Agreed, and I wonder how much things are gonna go google car/glass. Meaning ubiquitous invisible computation interfaces with at most some connected flexible ~realtime epaper as the desktop computer, no more boxes etc.
Over the last 20 years or so, it seems like the smartest of us were spending our careers and lives building a better nervous system for the planet in the form of popularizing the internet and building services that connect to it.
Now that we seem to be in a good place with all that, and the pendulum seems to be swinging back to a more...physical place with work in self-driving cars, medicine, space, etc.
I think it's fantastic. The best photo taking app in the world won't drive me to a space port where I can catch a ride to Mars.