Is anyone else feeling wistful about the tech industry right now? I know I am. It feels like the end of an era. I read this post by Derek Thompson in The Atlantic today, and I think it echoes this feeling, while ending with a tiny bit of optimism. One mistake that a journalist can make in observing these trends is to assume that, because the software-based tech industry seems to be struggling now, things will stay like this forever. More likely, we are in an intermission between technological epochs. We’ve mostly passed through the browser era, the social-media era, and the smartphone-app-economy era. But in the past few months, the explosion of artificial-intelligence programs suggests that something quite spectacular and possibly a little terrifying is on the horizon. Ten years from now, looking back on the 2022 tech recession, we may say that this moment was a paroxysm of scandals and layoffs between two discrete movements.
Learning to code can't fix capitalism
Learning to code can't fix capitalism
Learning to code can't fix capitalism
Is anyone else feeling wistful about the tech industry right now? I know I am. It feels like the end of an era. I read this post by Derek Thompson in The Atlantic today, and I think it echoes this feeling, while ending with a tiny bit of optimism. One mistake that a journalist can make in observing these trends is to assume that, because the software-based tech industry seems to be struggling now, things will stay like this forever. More likely, we are in an intermission between technological epochs. We’ve mostly passed through the browser era, the social-media era, and the smartphone-app-economy era. But in the past few months, the explosion of artificial-intelligence programs suggests that something quite spectacular and possibly a little terrifying is on the horizon. Ten years from now, looking back on the 2022 tech recession, we may say that this moment was a paroxysm of scandals and layoffs between two discrete movements.