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I think the biggest reason a lot of us are into retro-computing is that it harkens to an age when you could understand everything the computer was doing. “The Game Boy is a great way to learn assembly and low-level programming with real hardware and real output. You learn computer science concepts that are hard to grasp while doing something cool. It makes what otherwise might not be very interesting into something fun.”
Are the 90s the last “understandable” decade?
Corporate: Litigation funding. Post information-scarcity (& automating podcasts (GH)) - what are the new scarcities? NLP and competitive moat. Building living systems. Deere and the (non) Right to repair. Food waste to protein. Gas industry and influencers.
Confused about Exxon “leaks”: between deniers and claiming some knew “too early”.
People: Career cushioning. eSport interest fading. Infinite entertainment. PsyCare as a trend for the beauty industry. KGB defector in 1984 predicts US transformations. DART asteroid deflection. Offgrid in Manhattan. All-time low kindergarten vaccination. DnD license progress.
Art: Zoomed poetry. Drawing ideas. Bibites - new ‘conway life’ game.
A touch of digital: Vintage computing lives on thanks to opensource. Bitcoin consumes the carbon EV have saved. Digital Health sector matures.
GPT et al: GPT3 and mental health support. ChatGPT and code improvement. AI in 2026. AI misalignment: catastrophe in the making.
Processed these last weeks: Slumberland. Glass onion. Witcher miniseries. Multispecies cities: solarpunk futures. And Enola 2.