The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Emp… cover
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Emp…
by Tim Wu
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everyone · 2026-06-04 · Original thread
Yeah that is good, there are some good things, but I think on average the computer user experience is worse.. In the 80's and 90's with the rise of microcomputers and the net and the web and Linux, things were so utopian, things just seemed to keep getting cooler and computing was empowering people.

That was the cool part of "the cycle". We are defo in the shit part now. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8201080-the-master-switc...