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