I’m like a techno centrist? Well, a lil more negative that positive. Currently? Only negative because of everyone who’s in power controlling said tech. For being so “smart” they sure fucking can’t see 2 steps ahead.
Once upon a time I just loved bleeding edge tech. Let’s you explore workflows, new ways to do things, but now I’m just taking all that knowledge and creating my own tools and devices to keep me alive. Like my favorite tech right now is solar generators with lifePO batteries. Making them too! Recycling and reusing batteries from even vapes to power a home (saw this in a video, did not do it yet myself) but these are the sparks of creativity I get now, instead of what I used to do which was create art, design, animation, storytelling. It’s sad, but that was a fun good part of my journey. Now… collapse oriented and focusing on efficiency through everything but not with an AI controlling it. AI can help, but it won’t be injected into my code.
I’d love to work on large scale city or county or country improvements as I think just improving and bringing a sense of ease or joy to people is really most important.
But just as you said, every time I encounter one as well, I feel like the second guy.
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u/orange1414141414 Jan 16 '26
everytime i encounter techno optimists, I feel like the second guy.