#Web3 #linux #obsolescense
Obsolescence
He opened one of the boxes. The screen wasn't very big but the monitor was terribly big and heavy. That's why it was protected with thick sheets of polystyrene. I could barely lift it. 10 kilograms of the purest obsolescence. The processor, sound and video card and chip were separate but included in a large case that reached from the floor to the knees. A gigabyte of working memory seemed like a joke to him. A cable and at the end a noisy keyboard with letters and numbers.
All of this took up more space than all of his belongings. For only two reasons could he find a way to afford the relative luxury of having that big old device: an illegal connection to a terrestrial cable from the Sole Energy Corporation. And an underground room full of humidity that he managed to build clandestinely over the years.
Technological advancement was so rapid that some new products became obsolete before they were released to the market. Research into this phenomenon became a common topic on forums. But at the same time, the inequality of access to technology made what was obsolete the most common for the vast majority. Aerocars that exceeded the speed of sound coexisted with the most rudimentary bicycles. Payments in nanoseconds at the same time as transactions that could take days.
When he turned on the old computer he couldn't believe how slow it was. And after weeks of searching he found something he would never have imagined existed: an archaic text program without artificial intelligence that he could use offline completely out of the sight of social control companies: libre office. He grabbed the keyboard and two keys caught his attention: Enter and Esc. He felt that the revolution was possible.
