Hence it's not really possible any longer for them to grasp that the people have gotten wise to computers, skeptical of the magical claims, and very weary of decades of inflated promises from one #tech sector hype-master or another. They cannot go back to the time when the general public was so easy to bamboozle with #software. Any such acknowledgement of the changed circumstances would be "negativity" or "FUD".

But they can try. They can try real hard, with the help of their Republican friends in government, to bring the dead past back to a ghastly simulacrum of renewed life.

~Chara of Pnictogen