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The tech utopia fantasy is over
i talk about how the idea of a humanity-saving tech revolution from the usual tech suspects is dead (for me).
The ads were painting a bright future with glossy robots, blinking datacenters, transhumanist image of cyborg-esque humans ; an age of knowledge and connection, productivity and ease. The ability to produce and share your own content and become a star overnight online without casting managers and directors or record studios emboldened the idea of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps, a geographically unlimited American Dream. ByteDance(owner of TikTok, Douyin, CapCut, Lemon8 and others) routinely faces distrust because of Chinese national intelligence and ability for China to shape public opinion elsewhere by the powerful algorithm, and was involved in controversies around censorship of Hong Kong protests in 2019 and Uyghur oppression, and allegedly pushing pro-Russian propaganda.
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