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

Tech tends to swing between centralized and unique. Early desktop apps were diverse, but the cloud made things more uniform. Now, we’re likely heading back to more local, quirky styles as tech evolves naturally, often beyond our full control.

Think we’re nearing that shift?

This is a bit of tangent, but there’s a couple who live on their sailboat and, needing to conserve electricity, created their own set of lower power-consuming apps. Almost goes without saying but the apps are not cloud-based.

https://100r.co/site/tools_ecosystem.html

Speaking of local and quirky… https://warpcast.com/wevans247.eth/0xb214cbf2