{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F5992554c-2fd2-43f2-a277-c3776e03e6dd","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Why does technology no longer excite?","description":"When did technology last excite you?\u00a0\nIf Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is to be believed,\u00a0your\u00a0own excitement ended, simply had to end, after\u00a0turning 35 years old. Decades ago, at first writing privately and later having those private writings published after his death, Adams had come up with \"a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies.\" They were simple and short:\u00a0\nAnything that is in the world when you\u2019re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.\nAnything that's invented between when you\u2019re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.\nAnything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.\nToday, on the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz, we explore why technology seemingly no longer excites us. It could be because every annual product release is now just an iterative improvement from the exact same product release the year prior. It could be because just a handful of companies now control innovation. It could even be because technology is now fatally entangled with the business of\u00a0money-making, and so, with every one money-making idea, dozens of other companies flock to the same idea, giving us the same product, but with a different veneer\u2014Snapchat recreated endlessly across the social media landscape, cable television subscriptions \"disrupted\" by so many streaming services that we recreate the same problem we had before.\u00a0\nOr, it could be because, as was first brought up by Shannon Vallor,\u00a0director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute, that the\u00a0promise\u00a0of technology is not what it once was, or at least, not what we once\u00a0thought\u00a0it was. As Vallor\u00a0wrote on Twitter\u00a0in August of this year:\u00a0\n\n\"There\u2019s no longer anything being promised to us by tech companies that we actually need or asked for. Just more monitoring, more nudging, more draining of our data, our time, our joy.\"\n\nFor our first episode of Lock and Code in 2023\u2014and our first episode of our\u00a0fourth season\u00a0(how time flies)\u2014we bring back Malwarebytes Labs editor-in-chief Anna Brading and Malwarebytes Labs writer Mark Stockley to ask: Why does technology no longer excite them?\u00a0\nTune in today.\u00a0\nYou can also find us on\u00a0Apple Podcasts,\u00a0Spotify, and\u00a0Google Podcasts, plus whatever preferred podcast platform you use.\n\nShow notes and credits:\nIntro Music: \u201cSpellbound\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro Music: \u201cGood God\u201d by Wowa (unminus.com)\n","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/2f2264d0-0055-4b84-8102-6dc1ce5ece6a/lock-and-code-logo-2021-ar2rs.jpg"}