The Problem is Not Technology, the Problem is Really Bad Things Sold or Imposed as "Tech" (Like a Religion Built Around Technology)
Windmills are "tech", bridges are very old "tech" in the engineering sense (prior to development of more advanced tools and the industrial revolution, finer or micro-scale engineering etc.)
A couple of Daily Links [1,2] from a Techrights associate attribute the problems we now have (including slop) to "tech", but that seems a bit misguided to say the least. It seems mis-framed because tech is OK, though it depends which? Or whose...
Not too long ago we ran some long articles about how "Tech" with a capital T became like somewhat of a religion. What the corporate media calls "big tech" (they capitalise both the B and the T) is not tech but means of social control (mass control, "at scale") pushed in or shoehorned into society by FOMO methods and institutional imposition. They try to convince all of us (or leverage cultural ridicule via peers) that to reject some so-called 'Tech' is to be "left behind" and be shunned/banished from social circles. They habitually throw in insults like "Luddite".
People use technology all the time. From the toothpaste tube that you use when you wake up (technology manufactures and packages those tubes) to the lightbulb in the loo, this is the marvel of technology. It gives you better, healthier teeth and allows you to function even at bedtime, in the darkness of nighttime (or dawn).
Don't hate technology, hate the corporations that abuse it to promote coercion, exploitation etc. Give these the middle finger; be more selective. █
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Love It When Someone Voices What I Can’t (Or, Yeah, I Think I’m Tired of Tech Now Too)
I think it’s that so much of it has become, to use the word the kids love these days, slop. I’m supposed to be the piggy just digging away, buying the new, the next, accepting the 25th installment of a movie franchise, seeing movies because I go “HEY I RECOGNIZE THING” and that’s the only dopamine center worth digging into. And generative AI, well, that’s the perfect example here, a project designed specifically to just redo what’s been done before, again and again, predictably.
I’m tired of it. And I have to find the fire again. Hence, this.
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I'm tired of tech
But for a while now, and especially these past 12 months, I've become tired of what the tech world has to offer.
Tech runs the world now. (The 7 richest people on earth are tech bros entrepreneurs.) It is everywhere. Most everything feels like it's tech now. That, per se, is not something that bothers me, but it's what the tech world deems "interesting" that annoys me.
Image source: A View Through Three of the Northwestern Arches of the Third Storey of the Colosseum in Rome