Ask HN: When Did Tech Stop Being Cool?
by dvh1990 on Hacker News.
I grew up a millennial tech geek, spending my days lurking on Tom’s Hardware, playing and modding video games, tinkering with code and watching Star Trek. Wherever I looked at the world’s problems, more technology seemed to be the answer. Nowadays I’m a software dev and tech entrepreneur. At best, technology bores me. At worst, it terrifies me. Today’s startups are solving the most boring problems imaginable. Gadgets are a snoozfest. Programming languages and frameworks seem to be running in circles. We seem to be experiencing diminishing returns on tech for the past few years. More tech is no longer necessarily better. Is this just a phase before the next big industrial revolution? When did this start, and when is the drought going to be over?