It’s kind of interesting that this occurs that at the same time tech leaders are basically telling us, we don’t need institutions, look we have ai instead of universities, tech will solve all of your problems. I don’t actually think there’s a conspiracy here, but like, instead of journalists raising the standards of tech, tech lowered the standards of journalists, and made us all sensationalist microbloggers.

And yet I wonder with the acceptance of tech and the downfall of institutions… isn’t one of the things people are nostalgic for or made the past so great was basically institutions?

I think that around the mid-2010s that acceptance of tech you're talking about has started eroding and it's still eroding quite fast. Maybe I'm just getting older and leaning towards being cynical? I don't know but it seems my daughter and her friends don't have that idealistic view of tech as me and my buddies had in the early 2000's.