july

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

I did swing for a bit and one of my teachers lamented about how all the styles converged and became less interesting post globalization era. It used to be eclectic and unique, they said.

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

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

This is a really great perspective tbh

And I completely agree with you about the lack of control over our collective technological trajectory. 

It's really easy to get caught up in the excitement of new innovations and forget that they're often shaped by complex networks of people, institutions, and interests.

But I wonder anything we can do to intentionally shape the direction of technology, or are we largely at the mercy of its evolution?