Apple's Vision Pro Portends a Dark Future

I'm not commenting on the AVP here.

> We mostly take it for granted that digital technology comes with serious social and developmental drawbacks, even if these may not justify outright panic. As a result, most of us now look on our devices and the industry that makes them with a kind of dependent contempt.

This articulates a hazy feeling I've had for a few years now. I think it hits the nail on the head.

It's fascinating how few people (particularly, but not only, tech laypeople) get excited about shiny new tech anymore. I think that quote explains why extremely well. Tech has gone from being a liberator or bringer of freedom to being an oppressor that we feel forced to dance with.

I think that's a situation that cannot persist, and if our industry doesn't take this problem seriously, there will be a comeuppance that will be hard to recover from.

Our industry needs to go back to building things that benefit people without keeping them firmly under a thumb. But I'm not sure that we will.