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The New Age (agenda)!

Does anyone here worry about new age technology taking over the next generation?
Our children and grandchildren?
Speaking from a gen x generation to gen z generation.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
No - in short!

You don't define "new age technology" anyway. The third word itself, coined about a hundred years ago, is so wooly it has never really meant anything anyway - and I do not denote people as "Generation Some-Letter".

Forecasts of what technical developments "will" bring have always been wide of the mark especially when pessimistic.

Human generations overlap although there is now a slow drift to a higher proportion of the elderly (including me!) in the population at large. People have always taken advantage of the Very Latest technical developments - alongside over-excited prophecies both good and ill for them.

The Bronze Age meant new weapons for fighting men as well as hunting animals for food; but also meant a flowering of functional and aesthetic applications.

The Renaissance was a great advance in the harts and learning, leading to the Age of Enlightment as people started to question age-old dogmas and fears, and started to understand the world and Space.

1) "Hens will stop laying, cows will stop lactating!"

2) "The human body cannot withstand travelling at more than thirty miles per hour!" (Before anyone did travel faster than on a galloping horse.)

3) "We will all have 'flying cars'."

4) "Cities will be giant metropolises of buildings a mile high"

5) "Men will use these to look through women's clothes!"

6) "We will colonise other planets" (which ones?)

What were those on?

1 and 2: Common fears about the new-fangled railway trains. Soon proven nonsense.

3 and 4: Assorted futurists's ideas popular in the mid-Twentieth Century. Neither has come about, apart from the dreary spread of high-rise ugliness to make all cities look like bland copies of New York.

5: Fear of X-Ray machines. Soon proven nonsense. (Though I do wish lazy, present-day journalists would stop wrongly calling personal security scanners in airports, "X-Ray Machines". )

6) Still common, encouraged by Elon Musk's dreams, as "the" answer to humanity's basic problem - over-population with diminishing resources. Yet no other planet in the Solar System can support Earthly life, the nearest possible alternatives if any exist at all are many years' of travel distant, and extra-terrestrial colonising would not solve the problem.

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Will developments in computing and the Internet be good or bad? Very hard to know, but they are already bringing both very good and very bad.

They won't "take over" anyone, but I am concerned that life is becoming ever more constrained by their uses, as commerce uses them to drive narrower and narrower choice of ways to do things, and ultimately choice of things.

I do fear they are leading to a new Age though: the Age of Ignorance, based on new forms of superstition, dogma, deceit - not malevolent faerie-folk but malevolent people .

These are not characteristics of the computers, though; but of their owners and users.

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There is a further, real fear yet to be addressed: depletion.

Our society world-wide relies ever more on just two basic minerals: iron-ore and petroleum. Both are finite but at least iron and its plethora of alloys (the steels) are re-useable, with some attitition. Whether we stop using petroleum fuels or not, petroleum is NOT a "fossil-fuel", we will run out of it sooner or later, and then what.....?

No amount of computer power can replace those, even if it proves still possible to have computers without petroleum derivatives and a range of metals.


Our descendants will not be "taken over" by "technology" - whatever that is - but by themselves. Yet they will need ensure they have the engineering they will need, with what they will have; if they want anywhere near the standards of life we take for granted now.
I think that technological advancement is inevitable. People raised many concerns about television at various points from its widespread arrival into households. Concerns were raised about time in front of the television, about the affects of violence on the television, etc. Whilst television clearly does not have the reach or the depth of implications of the internet, it reminds you that fears around new and engaging technology are not new. Similar fears have been raised about gaming technology and are still being raised about Smartphones and social media. Now there is AI to worry about too. It's like fighting the tide though. Once something is invented and rolled out to the masses you can't take it back. If you try you just move it entirely to the black market where it cannot be regulated. So it's a case of living with it and doing our best to police it. I agree that there are many legitimate concerns though.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Taking over the next generation, no.

Changing how society is? Yes! Very much so.

Yet the direction how that change takes is oh so precarious.

Technology is a tool. You can destroy with tools, as well as be creative.

Ironically, religion throughout history has used technology to destroy.

Who were the ones that could only read in history? The religious.

AI generated...

In history, religious figures, particularly those in monastic communities, often had exclusive access to reading and writing, as they were typically the ones responsible for copying and preserving texts. This was especially true during the Early Middle Ages when literacy was largely confined to clergy and monks. Wikipedia

Historical Literacy and Religion
The Role of Religious Figures

In many ancient societies, literacy was primarily confined to religious leaders and scholars. This was due to several factors:

Access to Education: Religious institutions often served as the primary centers of learning. Monasteries and temples were places where texts were copied, studied, and preserved.

Sacred Texts: Many religious figures were responsible for the interpretation and transmission of sacred texts. This included the Bible in Christianity, the Quran in Islam, and various scriptures in Hinduism and Buddhism.

Examples of Religious Literacy

Cultural Preservation: Religious figures played a crucial role in preserving knowledge and culture through their literacy.

Social Structure: Literacy among religious leaders often established a hierarchy, where the educated clergy held significant power over the largely illiterate populace.

In summary, throughout history, literacy was predominantly the domain of religious figures, who were essential in preserving and interpreting texts that shaped their societies.

Please note how I use AI as a tool and I am OLD.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@ArishMell think about what is being done to dumb down the public. No education, no experience.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@DeWayfarer "... being done"... by whom, though?

I suppose a lot of commerical web-ites and entertainments services encourage laziness and low standards, but we can still choose to be educated to the best of our abilities, even if we need a lot of effort for it.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@ArishMell Trump is forcing those who took the Biden education loan forgiveness offer to pay back that money. Plus all the other changes in education will limit experience. It's on and on and on. Trump despises the poor.
My Granny loves to use iPad .
But She dislikes to talk to Siri.
According to her TV for entertainment & iPad for emailing , net banking etc. 🙏
And I respect her decision.
Tell.A...Vision
Tell A Vive, live
Tell A Lie. Television is a fake reality we were are conditioned too understand a lie!
Especially as they played it live.
Do remember that old saying if your friend jumped off a bridge, would you do it? Just because you heard it?
Like the boy who cried wolf.
That is what was called an on old wives tail.
Did you believe it????
Do you believe everything you see on TV or the internet?
Just because you see it or hear it does not make it true.
Do not be deceived!
Ask the Lord for the eyes to see and the ears to hear.
There is a spiritual warfare going on in the world and Satan wants your soul.
Already happened ..
Mudkip · 31-35, M
Yes, these kids are literally frying their brains and have almost no attention span. I don't blame technology though, I blame lazy parents.
@Mudkip Thank you!
Although I cannot dispute the argument on lazy parenting, I will not dispute that because I learned that myself.
What worries me about this next generation who has no structure anymore when I KNOW IT BEGINS IN THE HOME!
IT ALL DOES. A childs home is supposed to represent security and stability and structure. Love of all your family who loves you. We have learned to walk around those we love. It really is not that hard. Only for.others, it is,!

Our younger generation has no idea when it comes to their parents putting them in front of a screen when then leave they leave home, as they walk out.
Their child is growing into a demonic world they do not know.
Mudkip · 31-35, M
@MamaButterfly of course it does start at home. We can't blame smartphones and all this media we have available, overlooking parenting and what values are being taught at home. These parents are literally letting smartphones educate their children because of the convenience of not having to deal with them.
Allelse · 36-40, M
I want the robots to takeover and stick me in the matrix.

 
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