I am so done with tech. I recall working for Olivetti in 1975 and being told that one day the brand new word processors we were launching (along with all the other brands that were doing the same thing) were going to talk to each other (email). And it all came to a pass.

These days, if I want to sign into my bank account, buy something online, register for electricity, etc, I have to have a smart phone in order for them to send me a message to check that it's me. Everything is so fucking hard compared to what it was in the 60s and 70s.

In the 60s and 70s, I had a little book which had my balances in. It was handwritten, and it was a perfect record of what I had withdrawn. I was never charged for withdrawing my own money.

In the mid 90s (or thereabouts) ATMs arrived. With it, you could no longer see the bank teller. If you did, you paid for it. The ATM also charged for withdrawing your own money.

I receive no convenience from these machines. It has merely added to my inconvenience. The idea that I can draw my money any time is bs. There was no problem with going to the bank and drawing. They always had plenty of tellers available. Lots more staff were employed, and cards were not swallowed by machines because you put in the wrong number three times.

The degree of security needed these days because computers can be hacked (doing it in person cannot be hacked), etc. is more trouble than the entire tech system is worth.

I have been an early adopter for most of my life. Generally people my age cannot understand how it is that I know how to work these things I wrote machine code and Assembler in the 70s, learnt to take a desktop apart and put it together in the 90s, did an MSCE around the same time, was online when the web had 3008 (or thereabouts) websites, etc. So I've been there all the way.

Tech?

I now believe people invent things and then they try to find markets.

Climate change. We have to close all hte businesses. Tech can't solve massive over-production that is killing our planet or the destruction that mining for rare eaths cause.

I don't know what you're doing, but more start-ups is not what we need.