Thirty-five years ago, Photoshop emerged from the special effects labs behind Star Wars, revolutionizing digital creativity. Now, strangled by Adobe's profit-driven subscription model, it’s bloated, sluggish, and frustratingly overpriced. How did the software that reshaped visual storytelling become the ultimate example of corporate greed over user experience?
Elon Musk, once celebrated as a visionary, is now unraveling under the weight of his own hubris. His chaotic mismanagement of Twitter (now "X") gutted its moderation, alienated advertisers, and turned it into a haven for spambots and extremists. Tesla, once synonymous with innovation, now struggles with delays, recalls, and regulatory scrutiny over its self-driving promises. Neuralink faces ethical concerns, Hyperloop fizzled out, and SpaceX’s achievements are overshadowed by Musk’s erratic behavior. His compulsive overpromising, questionable ethics, and reckless social media antics have transformed him from a tech icon into a self-destructive figure, more meme than mastermind.
Behind Joe Rogan’s façade of curiosity and neutrality lies a troubling pattern: profitable indifference to truth and reckless promotion of misinformation. By repeatedly hosting controversial figures and amplifying dangerous falsehoods, Rogan’s podcast has eroded public trust and exacerbated America’s divisions. Is Rogan knowingly exploiting this chaos for profit, or simply indifferent to the real-world consequences of his actions? Either way, America is left to reckon with the harmful legacy of his misinformation empire.
30 years ago, the heart of the WWW had a pressing need: a standard way to create and format documents. To address this, Berners-Lee introduced HTML (HyperText Markup Language). While the idea of "hypertext" had been explored previously by visionaries like Ted Nelson, it was Berners-Lee's practical application that set the stage for a global information revolution.