Internet developments have gone from exciting to dreadful.
Internet developments have gone from exciting to dreadful.
Idk if this is the right community for this conversation, but it's been on my mind and I want to share it with someone.
In the 00's every new thing we heard about the internet was exciting. There were new protocols, new ways to communicate, new ways to share files, new ways to find each other. Every time we heard anything new about the internet, it was always progress.
That lasted into the early teens and then things started changing. Things started stagnating. Now we're well into the phase where every new piece of news we hear is negative. New legislations, new privacy intrusions, new restrictions, new technologies to lock content away and keep us from sharing, or seeing the content we were looking for. New ways to force ads.
At one point the Internet was my most favorite thing in the world. Now I don't know if I even like it anymore. I certainly don't look forward to hearing news about it. It's sad, man. We've lost a lot. The mega corps took the internet from us, changed it from a million small sites that people created because they had big ideas, or were passionate about small ones, and turned it into a few enormous sites with no new ideas, no passion, just an insatiable desire for money.
We're at the end of an era, and unlike the last 20 years of progress, I don't think most of us will like what the next era brings.
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Capitalism "nostalgised" the internet and technological growth. Good times create weak men and all that. Now that the kinetic energy of growth is no longer there to excite us and fulfill our dopamine needs, we find the stability and refinement boring and dull.
Touch grass, get your sunshine and do some dopamine detox. Life is not meant to be an infinite loop of endless consumer innovation.
Life is exactly what it means under socialism, and it so happened that we as millenials got to experience this burst of the most enriching era of technological giant leap for humanity, with growing from CRT computers with slow internet to high speed internet with porn, democratised fast speed computers and powerful smartphones unifying dozens of gadgets as a 200 gram glass slab into your pocket.
I am using a 4 year old Android smartphone, and the next phone will probably be used for 5-6 years (8-10 if I get Fairphone 5, on my next phone shortlist), signalling smartphones peaking like computers and laptops. My modern ThinkPad is over 6 years old. Linux is fit for desktop use. Tech has matured.
You make some valid points. I'm not a millennial, but thanks for including me. :)
I thought computers had peaked for awhile too, and then I built a new one last year so I could run Cyberpunk 2077 on ultra. The new NVMe drives are an enormous leap forward. Mine runs at 650% faster than my previous fastest SSD. They're flat-out amazing. Graphics computation is also unbelievable these days. DDR5 is wicked fast. Basically I don't think computer hardware is anywhere close to peaked. It's still doubling in power every few years.
We already have 3 nm on mobile (not truly but marketing wise 3 nm) with the new iPhones, and we cannot go further practically, atleast for CPUs, due to ending up with atomic size restrictions and excess heat per area unit on these CPUs. Whatever you have is probably going to be top grade hardware for a very long time, considering that game on ultra (4090 Founder or 4080 I assume). We still have probably a couple generations of gains left on GPUs, but we are going to sit down for a long while, by the looks of it. You may have misinterpreted SSDs, since you previously had a SATA one. If you get an enterprise grade SLC NVMe SSD, it will be the better than what you probably have right now, but it may also cost more than your whole rig. Just assuming, your NVMe could be a TLC or MLC.
The gains we will see from here on will no longer be about performance, but efficiency and thermals. Whatever hardware has been made in this rat race, has been made to peak benchmarks, but never for sustained loads, an application which exists exclusively in and is catered to for some of the best enterprise data centers.
Moore's Law has ended. I think Sabine Hossenfelder also made a recent video on it.
Yes, I went from a SATA 3 SSD to an m.2 NVMe drive and the difference was incredible. I also went from DDR3 to DDR5, so that was obviously mind blowing. TBH I'm fine with computers capping out, since I just built the most powerful computer I've ever built, and got all cutting edge, top tier components, except for the GFX card. The GFX cards were still insanely priced when I built this thing, so I had planned on continuing to use my 980 ti. But it felt like putting an old engine in a new car, so I eventually broke down and bought a Gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8GB. The 3080's and 3090's were almost unobtainable when I built this thing. Now the 4090's are out, but I don't see myself upgrading any time soon. I'll probably just skip the 4 series. What's really crazy is the cost of the cutting edge stuff. I paid $320 for my RAM and you can get the same RAM for $99 now. I paid $240 for my NVMe HDD, and you can get it for $99. Of course I knew that the prices would plummet, but since I figured this will probably be my last full computer build for a long time, I might as well get all the best stuff available.