I’ve just been reading about how in the future, AI will allow us to speak with animals, and people will be able to communicate telepathically and live in their own VR worlds. (etc., etc.)
Man, this isn’t a world I want to live in. I’m so tired of the constant paradigm shifting that you have to put your brain through with each innovation. I wish technology just stayed frozen in the 1980s – there would be so much less uncertainty in my life and I could just focus on being a human.
Innovation keeps being forced on you and I just feel tired. >!And I’m only just in my 20s!< Is this ok? Is this valid? When resisting it is a loser’s game…
Are you mad about the technology or the underlying reasons it was born of? Honestly most people’s anger towards tech isn’t about the tech itself, but what it’s really used for
For example, the smart fridge, on paper most people would find it a fantastic idea. But then the user-hostile features set in. An internal camera could helpfully analyze everything in your fridge and put together an ez shopping list, but then in reality we kinda get that because it was designed around things like selling data collection and ADs and then designed to break in a year or 2 and take out half the fridge along with it because they want to make more money off you every 2 years
Now take the smart fridge in a world with strong privacy and consumer protection laws (and maybe even a capitalism free world) and it would be totally different, not only would you get cool things designed properly with heart and soul, but it’ll also last a long time. Modern tech doesn’t have to be as fragile as it is, NASAs space probes and rovers and satellites prove time and time again that “High Tech” can last with proper design and manufacturing. In the depths of space their shit is routinely lasting their original mission lengths. In space, in the top 10 most hostile places we know.
The thing many people don’t even need their fridge to be smart in the first place
Who are you to dictate who needs what? I definitely “need” a smart fridge from my example because I always forget to make a list before I go to the grocery store. It would save me so much time and money.
You honestly sound like the old fucks of ancient times past who always bitched about new “tech”:
- Damn smartphones, ruining society
- Damn internet, ruining society
- Damn personal computers, ruining society
- Damn video games, ruining society
- Damn television, ruining society
- Damn comic books, ruining society
- Damn rock and roll music, ruining society
- Damn jazz music, ruining society
- Damn movies, ruining society
- Damn automobiles, ruining society
- Damn telephones, ruining society
- Damn electricity, ruining society
- Damn novels, ruining society
- Damn newspapers, ruining society
- Damn printing press, ruining society
- Damn written language, ruining society
- Damn iron tools, ruining society
- Damn bronze weapons, ruining society
- Damn agriculture, ruining society
- Damn fire, ruining society
Nothing is stopping you from running away into the mountains to life a tech free life
