I have zero nostalgia. Good memories, yes. But I am hopeful that we could, if enough of us agree, build something better than has ever been before.

I can enjoy generational pandering like Ready Player One and I still want to get a TRS-80 Model III (it outsold the Apple II!) and connect a pi zero to the serial port to connect to a self-hosted LLM trained to respond like MuThUr 6000 from Alien.

But no way in hell do I want to go back to that era.