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We're Not Innovating, We're Just Forgetting Slower
We’ve mistaken complexity for progress — and forgotten how things work. A 41-year-old computer still boots instantly, while today’s “smart” tech buckles.
But, listening to the breathless coverage from tech journos who couldn’t explain the difference between RAM and storage if their click-through rates depended on it, you’d think we’d achieved sentience in a server rack. Companies are making billion-dollar bets on technologies they don’t understand, while actual researchers struggle to separate legitimate progress from venture capital fever dreams. Scroll through maker TikTok and you'll find endless videos of people hot-gluing LEDs to fruit, calling it “innovative hardware hacking” while completely missing the actual engineering happening in labs and workshops around the world.
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