Technology exists to serve us, we do not exist to serve technology. That is what silicon valley has fundamentally forgotten, but at the same time, the general population hasn't exactly done itself any favors either...

Silicon Valley effectively monetized fomo, instead of being afraid your attention might stray elsewhere they have convinced you not to pay attention to anything else for fear of missing out.

When Twitter turned to shit EVERYONE should have fucking quit the same day, Facebook has its hooks so fucking deep in our lives that not having it is akin to not having a telephone number ...

LOL they haven't "forgotten", they just don't care.

In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and large language models. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich.

Even if stating the seemingly obvious, this article is a good read.

Its easy to forget things you don't give a fuck about

The Juicero was one clear red flag of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero

I imagine that the article mentions it

They never cared to begin with

This article from the same author is also a great read:

Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie

and reinforces how out of touch these people are from reality due to their lack of intellectual curiosity and the cavalcade of equally vapid sycophants that surrounds them.

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Interesting read

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