Steve Jobs once said “technology should either be beautiful or it should be invisible”. He said nothing about being required to use an app where a website will do, technology spying on you from your car to the TV set, being offered help by pseudo-AI that is not helpful at all and having to endure tech bros that think society is just another pissing contest for the billionaire club.

I have to admit that I thought for a long time human explorers in space were sensible, but the last 20 years taught me otherwise. Then I stumbled over this piece, two years old and still gold and on point. As a bonus, you‘re going to read gems like „Fourth graders writing to Santa make a stronger case for an X-Box than NASA has been able to put together for a Mars landing“ and he actually proves it.

Why Not Mars (Idle Words)

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