deathmtn

Some people enter the technology industry to build newer, more exciting kinds of technology as quickly as possible. My keynote will savage these people and will burn important professional bridges, likely forcing me to join a monastery or another penance-focused organization. In my keynote, I will explain why the proliferation of ubiquitous technology is good in the same sense that ubiquitous Venus weather would be good, i.e., not good at all.

This is a long talk from four years ago, but I actually thought it just happened when I listened to it. A lot of people reading this will already understand what's dangerous about building technology that's not actually understood by those building it, but he says it in a way that's really funny and just drives home how crazy the current tech fervor really is. He says stuff like this:

The second mistake is that you connect this inscrutable thing to The Internet of Hate, often abbreviated as The Internet.

Worth having on in the background as you go about your day.