IT world is a crypt


    How great and wonderful the world of information technology is! Every couple of weeks I read news in the spirit of “1 billion web pages already exist!”, “Each group of kindergarten“ Alyonushka ”now has its own website!”, “IP addresses end in the third round!”. Aipads are handed out to schoolchildren, all African children have long been sitting on $ 100 laptops, and in advanced Europe, pigeons and bridges tweet on Twitter . In general, informatization is overwhelming everything and everyone, literally google it up to the most secret secrets today! Thanks to Wikipedia, you can not look like a fool on the forums, social networks have successfully masked sociopaths as extroverts, for other tasks, too, "have your own application."
    On the Internet now you can work and have fun. The Internet allowed a guy from a Siberian village to work on the hadron collider firmware, thousands of literary talents were revealed thanks to LiveJournal, the world saw its heroes on YouTube. Isn’t that fine? Not true.

    Cell


    Where is this billion pages? Where are these kids with sites, pigeons with iPads and laptops on bridges? I don’t see all this! I have one (one, damn it!) Site where I read the news. Another one is for the weather. The third is for jokes. There is Habr for ... well, for what I am doing here, whatever that is. And in total, I have 15 sites in my bookmarks. Each of them won their place later with blood, no one is superfluous and this list is changing by 1-2 positions per year. Why? And everything is very simple:
    • Good sites very rarely slip into complete trash - there is nothing to delete.
    • Each new site is time. My time, which is already missing for anything. Something worthy of it appears very rarely.

    And what's the point of me from all these billions of pages, if I never get to them? At the same time, I, with my dozen sites, are also not at the very bottom of the food chain — there are several hundred million people for whom the Internet is completely equal to contact (Facebook, classmates) and they don’t go anywhere except these sites.
    You object that it’s only a desert that’s visible from my tank to the nearest hump, but you, you know, on this very Internet, hoo! Congratulations. In our general prison, your cell is 2 square meters larger, and it does not go out to the farmyard with piglets lying in the mud, but to the street where cars with those same pigs are driving past its window. Plus you are in your prison every day substantially more than me. And even after spending 10 lives, you won’t read everything that they write on the Internet in one day. Well, what's the point?

    Problem of choice


    About a problem of a choice somewhere on Habré there was a good video, but for some reason I can’t find it. The bottom line is that when there are 3 options, we evaluate them well, choose the right one and rejoice. When there are 300 options, we:
    • None of them really appreciate (no time) and are upset
    • We spend a lot of time and get upset
    • We choose not the best and are upset
    • Even if we choose the best - it does not meet our expectations for the best product of 300 options and we are again upset

    And this is with 300 options. And with a billion? Everything is as much worse.

    Professional swamp


    Very well, the limitations of the Internet can be seen when using it in the professional field. Here I am, for example, a programmer. Sometimes I search the Internet for job information. I’m looking for various means - through search engines, through colleagues, through twitter, through questions. And all this uniformity of paths leads in the end to the same vicious circle: MSDN, Stackoverflow, Codeguru, and another 2-3 sites. Five resources to the whole huge globe! If you are doing something else, you also most likely have one professional forum, one or two thematic blogs, maybe a profile store, well, or there a group in social networks - that's all! The same five resources. Nowhere else to go, no analogues! Give me in RuNet an analog of RSDN or Habr - no, no! And so wherever you look.

    The light at the end of the tunnel is painted on the wall.


    Now it’s customary to say that the Internet, they say, equalized everyone, made it possible to work on anything from anywhere in the world, no matter what, and get decent pay. Indeed, at the different ends of the electronic money pipeline “employer <=> worker” there can be both mega-corporations and three-way schoolchildren.



    But what does equalize mean? This means that the same thing is everywhere. A designer from the village near Zhmerinka and an elite Moscow studio use the same photoshop, programmers of all stripes write in the same languages, use the same IDEs and compilers, which are dozens of adequate for the whole world. Those. wherever I go, in projects of whatever scale I work - my working tools (and in fact the technologies and tasks) will be the same. All the same rearrangement of bytes in memory with increasingly complex and confusing methods. Where to strive, why grow? “An interesting project, your startup” - you say. And what is the difference if you write all the same cycles and functions there (draw round buttons, typeset under IE6, patch KDE under DOS) the same 8 hours a day (or even all 12)?

    There will be no conclusions


    The Internet has very well outlined the framework within which humanity is located. If before I did not know that there was something somewhere, now I can find out for sure that there is nothing anywhere in the world. I see the limits of technological development and I understand that I will never be able to visit Mars - but a person of my age in the 80s could seriously dream about it. I can see the announcement of a new film - and not go to this trash, although 15 years ago I would have gone without an announcement and would have liked it too. I can’t show off my erudition in the chat, because “yes you read on Wikipedia”, I don’t know how and what I will teach my growing child - he will probably learn to google before he learns the multiplication table, and Google knows me more.

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