DFIO

Klaus

Sun, 09 Sep 2018 21:50:14 +0200

Depressed Former Internet Optimist

#^The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it all went wrong

21st-century digital evangelists had a lot in common with early Christians and Russian revolutionaries.

Andrew

Mon, 10 Sep 2018 02:44:10 +0200

All this has given rise to a new breed: the Depressed Former Internet Optimist (DFIO). Everything from public apologies by figures in the technology industry to informal chatter in conference hallways suggests itâ€™s become very hard to find an internet Optimist in the old, classic vein. There are now only Optimists-in-retreat, Optimists-in-doubt, or Optimists-hedging-their-bets.

None of us like to hear this kind of truth so bluntly stated.

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