You may have a focus on tech that is too narrow. Especially if you are mostly interested in ad-supported social media driven by Silicon Valley VCs.
Tech is still cool. I'm not young, so I don't think that age is a factor.
Just this morning I while waiting for a call to start we were talking about the tech behind the Russian drone on the news today. I have always had a passing interest in 'Long Range Fixed Wing FPV), which is pretty amazing tech. That is something that is accessible to the modern equivalent of "Tom's Hardware lurker". Commercially, remote operations (including industrial) is cool.
The accessibility of microcontrollers is pretty cool. The languages are a bit old, but how easy it is to do stuff is interesting. Real Time Operating Systems are still cool to tinker with - especially if you pair it to accessible electronics.
Agritech is pretty cool. As consumers, we don't see it much, but what farmers can do with so few workers is astounding.
Energy grids sound boring, but are pretty cool. As we generate more renewable energy and have to match it with substaintial demand, such as EV delivery vehicles, is not a boring problem.
I have customers that do pretty cool stuff at the nanometre scale. X-ray crystallography, CCDs that can detect a single photon of light. I've seen systems that are build to cool to, and operate at millikelvin.
There is so much cool tech! Getting a scrollable feed on a smartphone is a bit _meh_. You need to broaden your definition of 'tech'.
Tech is still cool. I'm not young, so I don't think that age is a factor.
Just this morning I while waiting for a call to start we were talking about the tech behind the Russian drone on the news today. I have always had a passing interest in 'Long Range Fixed Wing FPV), which is pretty amazing tech. That is something that is accessible to the modern equivalent of "Tom's Hardware lurker". Commercially, remote operations (including industrial) is cool.
The accessibility of microcontrollers is pretty cool. The languages are a bit old, but how easy it is to do stuff is interesting. Real Time Operating Systems are still cool to tinker with - especially if you pair it to accessible electronics.
Agritech is pretty cool. As consumers, we don't see it much, but what farmers can do with so few workers is astounding.
Energy grids sound boring, but are pretty cool. As we generate more renewable energy and have to match it with substaintial demand, such as EV delivery vehicles, is not a boring problem.
I have customers that do pretty cool stuff at the nanometre scale. X-ray crystallography, CCDs that can detect a single photon of light. I've seen systems that are build to cool to, and operate at millikelvin.
There is so much cool tech! Getting a scrollable feed on a smartphone is a bit _meh_. You need to broaden your definition of 'tech'.