SF Note 1.2

They did surgery on a grape a while back. Ages before that, our predecessors made a bulb that lasts. Capitalist incentives lead to forms of innovation, but certainly not better technology. And most technology increasingly looks like an un-repurposable closed box, just planned obsolescence on tap. Sorry, the clutch is gone, best get a new one. Drip fuckin’ drip. Most cars can now only be repaired by an approved vendor, and can’t be repaired too often. Not like in the good ole days eh. Give it a few years and we’ll be saying they don’t do surgery on grapes like they used to no more. How much effort is put into slowing down technological complexification and technological quality by capital? Alot. To acknowledge that, however, is not to say that once capital is removed the sky is the limit of technological complexification and quality - not on a finite warming planet it ain’t. The engineers inserting code into your printer to make it stop after a fixed number of pages are, from a certain vantage, slow-motion saboteurs deeply integrated into capital’s circuits. We need new saboteurs.