#109: Waiting on Silicon Valley - by Haley Nahman

On the creep of techno-pessimism

About 10 years ago, a clever observation a person could make at Thanksgiving dinner was that high school reunions were becoming irrelevant. With the ubiquity of Facebook, the thinking went, everybody would already be up to speed on everyone else. You would forever know what your high school prom king was up to in your hometown, or if that nervous kid from biology got hot and rich, waylaying the promise of a Romy and Michele-style comeback. It recently occurred to me that this future never really came to bear. In fact, I have no idea what most of my high school and college peers are up to.…

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