Steven Levy laments "the crash of the idealism that originally drew founders—and me—to the tech revolution."

· Bits and Bobs 12/8/25
  • Steven Levy laments "the crash of the idealism that originally drew founders—and me—to the tech revolution."
    • My response: That idealism didn't die, it just got scattered.
    • The Resonant Computing Manifesto is a Schelling point for people who never stopped believing.
    • The manifesto isn't proposing something new—it's trying to recover what got lost.
    • This is a homecoming, not a revolution.
    • The hacker ethic never went away; it got drowned out by the optimization ratchet.

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