“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”

[elrohir@mastodon.gal]

@thomasfuchs TORRENT! Decentralized computing and tinkering used to be about volunteer work for the benefit of the commons, once upon a time. It was only when social media invented influencers that chronically online people started getting obsessed with monetization and financial speculation.

[tkissing@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs Everyone in the bottom 99% should have regular opportunities to use a vibrator or a guillotine until we achieve world peace.

[joshsusser@autistics.life]

@thomasfuchs
- mRNA vaccines

[mascarelldiego@tkz.one]

@thomasfuchs yes

[mikemccaffrey@pdx.social]

@thomasfuchs @alice Our elected leaders are really into text messages for fundraising.

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@thomasfuchs Computers, but when they're used to make people's lives easier and not extract every last red cent from them.

[vsharma2430@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs That escalated quickly

[ox1de@cyberplace.social]

@thomasfuchs

I don't identify as either, but prefer any technology that saves, improves lives, nuff said.

[xgebi@hachyderm.io]

@thomasfuchs bicycles

[valsombra@chaosfem.tw]

@thomasfuchs I have worked in IT & cybersecurity for 18 years and the only technology I am excited about anymore is kissing.

Other than that, decentralized anything.

[aisling@critters.gay]

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io misread that as "violins" which yeah, hella good technology

[thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io]

@aisling I’ll allow it

[pizzademon@mastodon.online]

@thomasfuchs especially in combination:

- solar powered guillotines
- piezoelectric vibrators that charge themselves on the leaked motion of the daily train commute.
- librarians trained to administer free vaccines

[thesquirrelfish@sfba.social]

@mikemccaffrey @thomasfuchs @alice wait the left has elected leaders?

[thesquirrelfish@sfba.social]

@PizzaDemon @thomasfuchs
- And pharmacists and medical professionals trained to share information and train patients in participating in their own health care

[thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io]

@thesquirrelfish @PizzaDemon you dream big, I like it

[australopithecus@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs
Also not mentioned yet: batteries! Lots of exciting developments there

[qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs energy storage, if you're me. Re-wilding tech (which can be very tech)

Agricultural tech that walks back from high-fossil-inputs and pesticides, like agrivoltatics and regenerative agriculture.

Ocean cleanup and plastic removal tech.

Micro-mobility.

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@thomasfuchs Yes, although I gotta admit trains are less impressive to me the more that techbros try to reinvent them.

[natpryce@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs Desalination and water purification.