Steve Wozniak: The Future of AI Is 'Scary and Very Bad for People'

[Trillo]

103. I understand.

There's a lot of search engine censorship now. Finding raw data is nearly impossible. Most everything of great value has been rewritten in confused form by wordy, overeducated folks, social media is perhaps why the search engines are now loaded this way. The Internet has been dumbed down, by a lot. While all of this happened since '95, the 0.1% have seen their fortunes soar even higher (this is what I mean by Big Corporate in this particular instance).

The personal computer and the Internet did not act as a leveler, a PR campaign for which it was sold to the rest of us. Wosniak is making that point in the OP, technology has taken a turn for the worse, as no one saw that financial and political systems would be used to perpetuate the same inequities that always existed, those responsible only offering platitudes and dissonant rationalizations in return.

It seems all the Internet really did was remove the veil from the greedy, and created few well-compensated opportunities in return. The rest have worked for free or for peanuts. The masses are now mesmerized by glowing pixels citing obsolete, ancient scripture, and still sending their praise to the invisible god in the sky.