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This makes me think about convergence and divergence in styles of things that are made. There was a time when software was more client oriented I.e. more desktop apps and it led to diversity in styles I feel like. Eventually everything tended to go towards cloud and convergence happened. I do think things will swing back toward a being weird and local on the edges again. It’s just the natural flow of things. The progression of technology, what technology wants to be, what it wants to become. We have a lot less control over our hive technology mind (not in an AGI/ASI way) that we like to give ourselves credit for
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Makes me think of this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Technology_Wants And the concept of the “Techmium”
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What is techmium? Well here you go, another interview from 2007 https://www.edge.org/conversation/kevin_kelly-the-technium-and-the-7th-kingdom-of-life
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What is techmium?
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Wow, there was a LOT of stuff to think about it in there. But this part jumped out at me most: “It has its own force that it exerts. That force is part cultural (influenced by and influencing of humans), but it's also partly non-human, partly indigenous to the physics of technology itself. That's the part that is scary and interesting.” The reason it stood out to me, is that I think the opposite is what’s scary — the human component.
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