On: The web is 30 years old today

[andrepd]

The excerpt above it, from "The sovereign individual", is pretty depressing. A brand of techno-optimism that we now see has completely fell flat.

[no-s → andrepd]

The Sovereign Individual is a futurist observation. Bowie sold his catalog and continued to be great. Others achieved similar transcendence.

Why do you think it's flat? Does it seem mundane now? I experienced that era and it still seems like a magical transformation to me.

[specialist → andrepd]

Graeber's Utopia of Rules has a terrific post-mortem, eg why we don't have jet packs. Not the whole answer, but still thought provoking.