Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry
We have graduated, along with oil, real estate, insurance, and finance, to the big T. Trillions of dollars. Trillions! Get to that number any way you like: Sum up the market cap of the major tech companies, or just take Apple's valuation on a good day. Tweets: @richardreeze , @brad_frost , @nxthompson , @mathewi , @patbits , @tjl , @alexislloyd , @duretti , @anthonylydgate , @vtitunik , @ginatrapani , @goldman , @anildash , and @wired Tweets: Richard Reis / @richardreeze : “Each of our techy ideologies, while containing various merits, don't really add up to a worldview, because technology is not the world. It's just another layer in the Big Crappy Human System along with religion, energy, government, sex, and, more than anything else, money.” https://twitter.com/... Brad Frost / @brad_frost : “What do you think we're talking about when we talk about ‘design’? That's just a proxy for power; design is about control, about presenting the menu to others and saying, ‘These are the options you wanted.’” Great read by @ftrain https://www.wired.com/... Nicholas Thompson / @nxthompson : “I was lucky to be born into this moment...” So writes @ftrain in a beautiful, mesmerizing, thoughtful @wired cover story about what it means to love tech through one's life and into today. https://www.wired.com/... Mathew Ingram / @mathewi : Like @ftrain, I miss the early, optimistic days of the Internet, when you could code a website out of borrowed HTML in half an hour, and social media seemed like it had so much potential to make the world a better place. Not quite the way it worked out https://www.wired.com/... Patrick Lucas Austin / @patbits : “I came to New York City at the age of 21, in the era of Java programming, when Yahoo! still deserved its exclamation point.” My friend @ftrain has again written something absolutely your-last-free-article-or-whatever- worthy. https://www.wired.com/... Tom Lee / @tjl : The new @ftrain essay is as lovely as you could possibly hope for, filled with things that I and probably you have felt. This is the one I have felt most of all. https://www.wired.com/... https://twitter.com/... Alexis Lloyd / @alexislloyd : “We thought we were amplifying individuals in all their wonder and forgot about the cruelty, or at least assumed that good product design could wash that away.” Thank you for this thoughtful and poignant article, @ftrain. https://www.wired.com/... Duretti Hirpa / @duretti : “Progress is the opening of doors and the leveling of opportunity, the augmentation of the whole human species and the protection of other species besides.” this essay by @ftrain (like all his essays) is worth reading: https://www.wired.com/... Anthony Lydgate / @anthonylydgate : You should really read @ftrain's beautiful essay on why he (still) loves tech, if only for all the smartphone metaphors https://www.wired.com/... Vera Titunik / @vtitunik : Such an honor to have @ftrain wrestling with his faith in WIRED. https://www.wired.com/... @ginatrapani : I am also proudshamed, of all of it. https://www.wired.com/... Jason Goldman / @goldman : This one paragraph is so complete and beautifully written. https://www.wired.com/... https://twitter.com/... Anil Dash / @anildash : Here, @ftrain talks about why, despite all that's broken, we still hope for tech to help do good. https://www.wired.com/... @wired : 27.06 | Technology is just another human creation—like religion or government or sports or money. It's not perfect, and it never will be. But it's still a miracle. In our June issue, we go inside why we still love tech. https://www.wired.com/... https://twitter.com/...