Igor's call, in full

I warned two decades ago that the love affair with Big Tech would curdle into revolt. In 2026 it landed: booed CEOs, Molotov cocktails, even bullets. The public turned. The data backs the mood. Gallup found 7 in 10 Americans oppose a data center near them. Only 18 percent of 14- to 29-year-olds feel hopeful about AI, and 70 percent say it is moving too fast. Bumble lost 21 percent of its paying users, from 4 million down to 3.2 million, as people pulled back from algorithmic life. And an MIT NANDA study found 95 percent of enterprise AI pilots returned nothing on $30 to $40 billion spent. This is not a blip. It is the start of a decade-long correction against technology that overpromised and underdelivered on trust.

Adjacent calls

The class of 2026 says no: booed ceos, refused AI-only service, artists suing, voters opposing data centers. The backlash I called early has arrived on campus.Landed · verifiedI named gen z the "screenagers" in the early 2000s, a generation raised inside the algorithm that would be shaped and harmed by it. The 2026 data is the landing.Landed · verifiedThe alcohol economy reprices as gen z drinks less.Landed · verified

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