What also really didn’t help was bigtech trying to ultra-simplify everything in their capitalistic favor as much as possible to capture the largest audience, so most technology just became stuff-consumption devices to sell attention, rather than sophisticated tools you could learn to wield.
That’s a really good way of putting it.
What also really didn’t help was bigtech trying to ultra-simplify everything in their capitalistic favor as much as possible to capture the largest audience, so most technology just became stuff-consumption devices to sell attention, rather than sophisticated tools you could learn to wield.