Here we are, right where we were

Go back twenty years, in your mind.

No AI. No M5 chips. No 4k screen tablets. No video streaming. No spotify. Social media didn’t rule everyone’s time.

We’d draw on paper, thinking in the future maybe that wouldn’t be the case anymore.

We’d go to the store and buy our movies, wondering how cool it’d be to not have to.

We’d see fledgling web 2.0 sites promise greater connection, and the future looked bright.

But today?

Great artists still use paper. Great writers still use paper. They could generate a novel in a minute, yet they use paper.

Streaming is everywhere, and many of us long to have our physical media back. We have everything, but not what we want.

Social became toxic, AI made spam insufferable, and we’re withdrawing into smaller communities again, just like before.

For all the promise of “new and improved”, or “adapt or be left behind”?

Here we are, right where we were.