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Nostalgia is eating us alive. Instead of building a new world, we’re regurgitating a past that never existed (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have zero nostalgia. Good memories, yes. But I am hopeful that we could, if enough of us agree, build something better than has ever been before.

I can enjoy generational pandering like Ready Player One and I still want to get a TRS-80 Model III (it outsold the Apple II!) and connect a pi zero to the serial port to connect to a self-hosted LLM trained to respond like MuThUr 6000 from Alien.

But no way in hell do I want to go back to that era.

[–] CounselingTechie@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago

Exactly this. Learn from the past, take from the past parts, and improve upon them.