Douglas Rushkoff: Crashing Technosolutionism [video]
It&#x27;s really fascinating that our industry produces these kinds of bitter, cynical guys who are so brainwormed they talk in terms of ridiculous tribes like &quot;tech bros&quot; without realizing they&#x27;re stereotyping people in a way nearly indistinguishable than the kinds of stereotyping that goes on in the minds of bigots. Yes, there have been waves of disruption over the last few decades where idealists have had all kinds of under-defined imaginary utopian concepts of where things ought to go with new media and new technology, and many of those things just didn&#x27;t pan out. Sometimes it was due to capitalism, or stupidity, or the deficiencies of people in positions of power, but often when things fail due to capitalism after many attempts it&#x27;s because people simply didn&#x27;t want the thing once it was offered up. The good news is there is always another wave to catch and try again, try it differently, or try to simply correct what you feel went wrong. You can always tell when someone has flipped into becoming a poisoned cynic like this when they stop being cynical about the past and start being cynical about the uncharted future. I pray to God I go to my grave never being like this, it must be an absolutely miserable way to go through the world.