What's more, I'm leaning towards owning my own services and trying to understand how that would work in reality. Home ownership is standard and we rarely build our own homes now. Just wondering if that'll happen for essential services like email, chat, storage, etc.
I attribute this change from trust to skepticism to a changing of demographics on the internet. Back when I was more trusting, the internet was different.
Early internet felt more like idealist hobbyists sharing their creations with others The demographics now seem to be more representative of the population as a whole. There have always been more scammers in the world than dreamers/tinkerers, it's just that there was a window where that wasn't true of those sharing on the internet.
As the demographics changed, the average behavior did too. At least, that's how I rationalize it. I'm sure we'll have another golden age in another form in the future!
Yes I've been seeing this behaviour in myself lately. Not something new for me, but now it has a stronger feeling. Could it be due to the general increasing distrust in big companies and nation states? Maybe. It's hard these days for a technical savy person to trust big and loosely regulated organizations.
> nobody trusts tech to be benign or a voluntary enhancement to one's life anymore ... It's like watching someone tinkering on a torture device you know you'll eventually be forced/coerced into wearing. Nobody cares what epic new tech breakthroughs come with it.
I find myself more and more at the two extreme ends.
Either it streams or it is physical.
The skeuomorphic middle is mostly more pain than gain.