“I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
That’s definitely part of it, but I think the main issue is that a lot of the new tech in the last 20 years was used to further the far right (e.g. Facebook, Google) and erode civil rights in general (e.g. privacy, right to repair), on top of constant enshittification and ever-shrinking longevity of devices.
To quote one of my favorite authors:
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
That’s definitely part of it, but I think the main issue is that a lot of the new tech in the last 20 years was used to further the far right (e.g. Facebook, Google) and erode civil rights in general (e.g. privacy, right to repair), on top of constant enshittification and ever-shrinking longevity of devices.