I don't think the vibe shift they're describing has fully taken place yet, but I think the foundations have been laid and it's started. It's probably going to be a while and take further societal changes to fully come into fruition, though.

AR glasses coupled with a sophisticated input device (fingertap? tounguetap?) will eventually be able to fully replace a touchscreen interface. And from then on it'll eventually become dated and rude to resort to pulling out touch screens during a social event.

Mind you, inconsiderate people will be as distracted as ever, and will continue to halfheartedly pretend they're listening to those around them. They'll just need to find a new method to achieve maximal obnoxiousness.

…”a sophisticated input device (fingertap? tounguetap?)”

My money is on subvocalization.

You being uncomfortable with people different than you does not mean there's a conspiracy.

I still think of the short-lived Apple eMac when I read it.

Same! I had eMacs in school and loved them, they were my first exposure to the array of characters "emac".

It's funny how they sold that into 2006, with a CRT still

They had to because the RDF was based on CRT technology, originally.

What is RDF in the context of eMacs? I searched but I just get "Resource Description Framework" or "Reality Distortion Field".

Frankly, tech deserves its bad reputation in SF (and worldwide, really).

One look at the dystopian billboards bragging about trying to replace humans with AI should make any sane human angry at what tech has done. Or the rising rents due to an influx of people working on mostly useless AI startups, 90% of which won't be around in 5 years. Or even how poorly many in tech behave in public and how poorly they treat service workers. That's just the tip of the iceberg, and just in SF alone.

I say all this as someone living in SF and working in tech. As a whole, we've brought the hate upon ourselves, and we deserve it.

There's a long list of things that have "replaced" humans all the way back to the ox drawn plow. It's not sane to be angry at any of those steps along the way. GenAI will likely not be any different.

it's plenty sane to be angry when the benefits of those technical innovations are not distributed equally.

It is absolutely sane to be angry at people's livelihoods being destroyed and most aspects of life being worsened just so a handful of multi-billionaires that already control society can become even richer.

The plough also made the rich richer, but in the long run the productivity gains it enabled drove improvements to common living standards.

I don't agree with any of this. I just think it's aggravating to live in a company town.

That's probably less likely than ever.

I think you could make an argument either way and have an equal chance of being right. Either Trump et al get bribed/flattered/are personally exposed to the fallout and bail out their fellow class members or he gets angry about it and decides to make heads roll via his increasingly captured and controlled DOJ. I still agree it's more likely the former than the latter but I can see the path that leads to the latter.

Why are they forcing unpopular viewpoints on people? We do not need to be teaching creationism or teaching that climate change isn't real (to name a couple examples) just because they're less popular.

> People on the left think conservative political violence is worse. But conservatives don’t see it that way.

It doesn't matter if they "see" it that way. The statistics don't change because they don't like them.

I know and I agree. But politics are more often driven by perception than reality.

The "units" of critical thinking and meeting people who are different than you.

Agreed. Even as someone only on the tail end of the millennial generation, the total disappearance of hope in the past 10-15 years (but especially in the last 5) has been palpable. There's a tweet that's been floating around recently that says something along the lines of "basically nobody under 40 expects good things to happen ever again", and I think that sums it up pretty accurately.

I've ever seen them in the California Bay Area either. I don't go into the office for my current job, though, so maybe there are some tech bros out there wearing them?