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It’s weird how everyone is having big apprehensive reaction about a technology that changes the nature of humanity

If anyone could successfully make the case for how the change might be good, that would help a lot. No one has yet achieved that goal. Meanwhile, we have tons of examples of it causing significant harm and negatively impacting people's lives. People tend to not like that.

It enables people to create software so easily that we will be able to move away from the tech monopolies that dominate our lives

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Right but like, each of those did make a dent. My uncle made a whole business with vbnet

By that logic, though, you defeat all striving. Why bother with the internet and web when we can just stay in compuserve and aol? Why bother with linux when we can keep using windows?

That's not what I am saying. I learned to program in the 1970s BASIC era, and built web APIs that other people used to learn, and get into building things. Christensen disruption is real, but so is the Kevin Kelly insight that technologies don't actually go extinct.