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Josh Collinsworth

"Won't it be amazing what tech we'll have in the future?"

It's amazing what tech we have NOW. It's just all unaffordable, inequitable, locked behind a never-ending subscription, built to fail, and/or data mining and advertising disguised as a product.

The tech isn't the problem, and the next round of advancements isn't going to free us.

@collinsworth
To quote William Gibson from 1993
“The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.”

@collinsworth ... or depends on us-east-1 being online in order to function.

@collinsworth @Nine That, or it's patent/copyright encumbered, making the cost/etc issues even worse. E.g. 3D printers are an old technology, but patents...