Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future of tech to look like?

Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by Eric_WVGG on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @08:51AM (#27590975)

This. At bare minimum, a better-informed population that would be increasingly resistant to gov’t and corporate propaganda.

And in a sense, that kind of came to pass. Nobody believes _anything_ the government says anymore, and skepticism is at all-time highs. It’s just… everything.

I also bet very heavily against the widespread popularity of video on the net, not due to any technical limitations, but simply because reading is so much faster.

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Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by rchaud on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @01:07PM (#27594252)

> a better-informed population that would be increasingly resistant to gov’t and corporate propaganda.

This never came to be, because it has one gaping flaw; it assumes governments and corporations wouldn't also figure out how to use the Internet.

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Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by AlexAndScripts on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @03:03PM (#27595742)

I don't understand the use of video to teach many things. Particularly when it's not just a "Building this together" tutorial, it's a "teaching core concepts" video. You can't go back and forth on a video without quickly skipping through it, you really have to watch the whole thing. And listening to human speech is much slower than reading. I understand it for some things (Gaming, DIY, etc) but not teaching thinking subjects.

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Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by impute on Thursday June 24, 2021 @03:52PM (#27622968)

Some people are readers and some people are listeners.

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/reader-listener

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