“It's about visibility, the fear of looking behind”
This sums up everything driving the tech sector right now. From execs at big tech to nobodies on X.
EDIT; if I think about the nature of it. The visibility fight is the decreasing attention with increasing channels and noise. Visibility tactics go to the extreme. And the fear of looking behind comes from the previous tech cycles and the thoughts around what if you had missed those? And maybe those with the most fear are the ones that did.
> right now
It's always been like this. I used to build websites in the 90s and it was exactly like that. It was also horrible. People who had no tech background whatsoever making decisions on which tech to use (PHP vs ASP vs ColdFusion, remember those?); overpaying agencies to make HTML "templates" that had to have round corners everywhere. Etc.
Not everything's great today, but it's a little less bad I think.
I don’t know. I think back to my first dialup connection and getting internet for the first time. In no way do I remember fear being a driver. I remember people being curious. Nobody ran around saying you need to get on the internet or you will be left in the dust. Would be curious if anyone had examples of this if I am wrong. Youtube links to old news broadcasts or magazine print ad archive or something.
Well, the marketing from the AI companies is working.
Thats the clever nature of the companies. They are playing on peoples fear to drive adoption. Its a bit sickening to me
"Adopt or be left behind" and the quality of the thing you're adopting relies heavily on how much training it receives by the users who are scared of being left behind.
It’s FOMO and it works every couple of years because the execs who buy in are different to the last lot of execs who got promoted/canned.