I definitely used to be in the "e/acc" camp and I would love to be back in that camp. What I've seen the past few years is massive tyrannical coopting of a wide range of potentially great technologies. It's caused me to pause and my enthusiasm for technological progress to wane.

I'm now most excited about technologies that build up parallel capacities to the status quo systems that have been captured. It's not the same kind of progress I used to get excited about, because it's a bunch of recreating the wheel exercises, but we needed a bunch of new wheels before we could move forward.