I might be a one-man optimist brigade, but the negative nancies are stupid.

There are problems in the world. That cannot be disputed, but the overwhelming negativity is just intellectual laziness IMO. That and a fear of change or loss of status. I understand that fear, viscerally even. But the attitude is just dumb, you have to adapt. Plus, life is short! There's not some award you get on your death bed for being the most negative A-hole your whole life. A love of life is an amazing thing!

I look at this stuff in tech right now and say, "THIS SHIT RULES!" and am actually excited at the things I will get to build.

Like, tomorrow, I have to baby sit agents for most of the day, that's kind of a net "meh" but, I'm going to wire together an SDR I found in my shop and a raspberry pi I had lying around, and try to build an automated kiosk to transcribe some weather data for one of my customers. It's not a huge thing, but it's going to be fun. And the technology to really even do that didn't really exist a few years ago! Open Whisper is what, 4 years old?

But "oh teh noes, everything was better in the 90s!"

That's nostalgia, and it's reactionary garbage. I am not going to have my spirit broken by a bunch of people who never do anything.

All the stuff I always wanted to build is now easier than ever.