I am not a Tech Enthusiast
One thing that the current GenAI bubble has made me realize is that I am not a "tech enthusiast". Maybe I was a tech enthusiast in the past: it was exciting to see the explosion of new innovations year after year. I'm certainly the "person who knows how to use the computer" amongst the people that I know, at least.
The hype around Generative AI, NFT's, blockchain, and "the metaverse" are just attempts to sell the ill-defined concept of "the future". By staying in the abstract, they can make any promise that they want, whatever gets people hooked.
I care about technology insofar as its ability to do concrete things, and solve real problems that people actually have. These things have not demonstrated anything worthy of being called "the future".
The current state of computer technology is that of planned obsolescence, platforms that trap you in their ecosystems, subscription services, endless advertisements, barely iterative yearly releases, predatory monetization, artificial scarcity, "license" ownership instead of real ownership, wasteful energy use, decaying search quality, and algorithmic hell.
There is nothing about this to be enthusiastic about.