Technology

If you go back a few decades, you would see how companies would produce technological innovations with the mindset of, "If we design the best, most useful device possible, customers will come to us and buy our product".

Today, that has flipped into a mindset of, "We will create this technology, force users into adoption, and exploit them as hard as possible once we have them under our control."

The technology has become a means to control users, not to enable them.

At least it's good to see that people are catching on though.

mmmm. should they be into this? https://youtu.be/8mSIX8G_0Mk?list=RD8mSIX8G_0Mk would that be ironic?

Is this anything new at all?

Even back in the day, you had people wanting to live in the recent past, because the past usually gets romanticised.

So people in the 1960s might have a rosy view of the turn of the century, and want to go back to the 1930 days of art deco and balls, or those today, that might want to return what they believe to be glory days of 1960. Even if it isn't actually realistic to how you might live in the past. The average citizen in 1930 was not attending balls at a swanky music lounge.

Give it a few decades, we might also have people from 2050 pining for the 2020s, believing it to be just like the advertisements, where we all live in the penthouse level of skyscrapers, overlooking a vast cityscape.