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Don't think it is meant to be the date they are invented, but "how this thing was used in that year"
Sure, but then why those years? Why not some kind of pattern? It also seems like they're going to set up a before-and-after comparison, but they don't, it goes old toaster, old tv, old phone, new phone, new thermostat, new car, everything. The dates and the items are so arbitrary, it doesn't help them make their point imo.
I don't get it either. Could it be A.I.? I looked up the author on Mastodon. They seemed vaguely anti-ai. 🤷♂️
Maybe, I think it's more likely just lazy writing/composition. Not that the entire thing is badly written, though it could certainly by more engaging, literarily. The whole visual article thing doesn't help imo, it disrupts the text so much, it makes it feel like they just wrote a few sentences and then added a bunch of bs to fill it out. To be clear, I don't really think this author did that (though they did needlessly repeat themselves a lot), it's just an issue I'm realizing I have with the medium.