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
  • meyotch@slrpnk.net
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    25 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.