Today in the Journal there's a piece about supply chain woes for chips in the chip-manufacturing value chain. Which is to say that the companies that manufacture chips and tools for that process are having a hard time getting chips.
Which pushes us backward in the digitization of everything which techno-optimists have long heralded as a utopia but which many of us with a certain number of decades under our belts have looked and thought "yick." It's not that I don't realize that we derive a ton of benefits from these little computers we carry around in our pockets and those all around us, it's just that we always seem to be rushing headlong towards jettisoning everything uncritically while being pushed by the market and the forces of generalized acceleration into cycles of upgrades and replacements that don't seem to correlate with increased happiness.
For the moment, the process must forcibly slow down and people will have to solve problems differently and tend to their existing objects. It will probably be good for all of us, if not for the centralization of all commerce in fewer and ever larger companies.
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