The concept of proprietary parts.

If your product is so shitty that your plan to make money is to be the only supplier of parts when it breaks theb just fuck off into the sea.

Derivatives and other complex financial instruments.

Tools for cheating others out of money, obfuscating transactions or skirting legal restrictions.

Not quite technology, unless you factor in the development of cable TV, but 24 hour news networks. That was the start of news as entertainment, as they didn’t have enough to fill 24 hours and had to do whatever they could to get and retain viewers.

All things plastic disposable.

Generatige AI and Surveillance Systems

The dentist’s drill.

Cars, and all the resulting infrastructure.

Ruined city structures and, to an extent, local communities. Small corner stores and tight-knit communities have vanished in favour of giant shopping malls meant to serve everyone in a huge radius.

Fire. If we couldn’t get more calories out of food our calorie hungry brains couldn’t develop more and maybe we wouldn’t be living in this hellacape

Generally just over engineering. Cars used to be serviceable but here we are, thousands of small decisions later, decisions that led to things being standardized as far more complicated. Good luck working on a new car.

Same trend is everywhere in society. Websites used to be 20 KB of specially formatted text and maybe 500 KB of images. Now they’re literally megs of images and JavaScript and to build one in a modern setting, you’re expected to use and install gigs of dependencies. And beyond that we’re being asked to burn down rainforests for a half genius/half moron machine to “help” us with the process. This is “more efficient” after all.

AI, and Nukes.

Airplanes.

I shall not elaborate.

Translation: I’m just a little hater

Pop-up ads

plastics and commercials

customized aftermarket mufflers

AI/LLM, pretty much ruining and causing everything thats wrong right now.