From the first time I sat in front of my father's "Osborne 1" in 1983 to about four or five years ago, I was really passionate about computers and technology. I knew as young as ten years old what I "wanted to be when I grew up"-- and I made it happen.

But since then my interest has been rapidly flagging, to the point where more recently I wished and wish I could nuke the whole concept of computers off the planet: the ratio of technology being used for good versus evil is probably 1:1000, at best.

Just in one day I've encountered both this and this.

These types of findings are on a daily basis rate for me. Meanwhile, the apotheosis of computers being "peak helpful" seemed to be around 1996: you could materially do all of the same useful things on them then as now, but they weren't so powerful that they could be abused.

Technology is setting the stage for such unprecedented evil that one of the options wifey and I are exploring is buying a totally remote piece of land somewhere, maybe even without a listed address if possible, and living in an assembled log home kit, totally off the grid.

To be clear, I don't blame the technology, just as I don't blame the gun when someone commits murder with one: I still love technology in isolation: but the world is being run, from the top of the totem pole down to my peon neighbors, by wacko authoritarian nutjobs.

They can't be trusted with technology any more than a two year old can be trusted with a box of matches. Wishing the technology gone seems more kind than wishing the people dead.