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Tech Bros Ruin Everything
Some of you don’t remember when Google’s slogan was “Don’t be Evil” and it shows…
Back in 1996 when Larry Page and Sergey Brin were both PHD students at Stanford University, California, the team discovered a newer, better way to operate search engines and built the first “killer app”. This app was Google, built on backbone of Page ranking and relevance, it quickly became the best and easiest to use search engine on the internet.
That was back in the late 90’s, when the internet was small yet flourishing. Internet 1.0 had many pages and services competing with each other for users and because of this free market environment, it grew and took on new life. In 1998, Google’s slogan was “Don’t be Evil”. This slogan reflected the original principles of the two creators. Google was created to make using the internet easier. And it did. Until the post 9/11 era and the dawn of the new Millennium.
This new era ushered in a wave of Millenial “tech bro” creators, such as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey. What is a tech bro? Silicon valley types. White collar programmers, coders and engineers- the architects of Internet 2.0. Channers, Shitposters, Spammers, Hackers and Memelords. The originators of the gamed and curated online experience, the toxic sell outs of the failed sharing economy and start up culture, the robber barons of the once free world of the internet.
Unlike their techno-anarchist hippy forefathers, Internet 2.0 techbro’s lack the principles and morals that drove internet 1.0 to success. Tim Berners-Lee would be very disappointed with the current crop of tech bro libertarians and the profit over everything ethos that drives technology these days.
It’s that profit centered philosophy that drives the internet and the companies of internet 2.0 to “disrupt” and engineer the human experience in and around technology. One of the leaders of this…
