The books Walkaway (Cory Doctorow) and Accelerando (Charles Stross) both give me nostalgia for a time when the future seemed like an exciting challenge instead of an unbearable one.

I don’t think that’s really possible. I saw what happened when twitter users started trying Mastodon. There was a ton of confusion, and almost none of it was about terminology. The confusion was stuff like “Why doesn’t search work like Twitter’s” or “I can’t see this person’s posts”. Trying to dumb it down only works when the details don’t really matter.