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BlueGreenGrey · M
no
have no doubt, ample lip service will be given to this effect of hating technology, even conscious acknowledgements will be given that, for example, we know AI is destroying the environment, jobs, authenticity, trust, and more
but actual behavioral change en masse that stops normalizing even the worst technological manifestations will never follow the fleetingly hollow words ... more often than not, most people's desire to truly fix any of this is 9/10ths imaginary
even when people know some tech is outright destructive, it is nevertheless a potent opiate or just too damn easy to reach for, too damn hard to thoughtfully avoid with deliberate, dilligent intent
more than likely, even if takes months to restore electricity after the worst case solar storm or an entirely predictable cyberattack on countries with extremely vulnerable power grids (e.g., the US), once power is restored, we'll be right back to casually using AI, mining crypto, etc. on a daily basis just as before ... we won't learn any lessons from the trauma
at the same time, some of tech is legtimately beneficial ... all romanticizing aside, no one would really pine for the medieval era of bubonic plague (think of the disgusting everyday filth of the «bring out your dead» scene from The Holy Grail) even if they pine for some of that era's other outward trappings
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funnily enough, this news item appeared today
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-greatest-parasite-is-right-in-front-of-you-and-its-dangerous
«The Greatest Parasite Is Right in Front of You – And It's Dangerous»
(it's smartphones)
have no doubt, ample lip service will be given to this effect of hating technology, even conscious acknowledgements will be given that, for example, we know AI is destroying the environment, jobs, authenticity, trust, and more
but actual behavioral change en masse that stops normalizing even the worst technological manifestations will never follow the fleetingly hollow words ... more often than not, most people's desire to truly fix any of this is 9/10ths imaginary
even when people know some tech is outright destructive, it is nevertheless a potent opiate or just too damn easy to reach for, too damn hard to thoughtfully avoid with deliberate, dilligent intent
more than likely, even if takes months to restore electricity after the worst case solar storm or an entirely predictable cyberattack on countries with extremely vulnerable power grids (e.g., the US), once power is restored, we'll be right back to casually using AI, mining crypto, etc. on a daily basis just as before ... we won't learn any lessons from the trauma
at the same time, some of tech is legtimately beneficial ... all romanticizing aside, no one would really pine for the medieval era of bubonic plague (think of the disgusting everyday filth of the «bring out your dead» scene from The Holy Grail) even if they pine for some of that era's other outward trappings
*****
funnily enough, this news item appeared today
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-greatest-parasite-is-right-in-front-of-you-and-its-dangerous
«The Greatest Parasite Is Right in Front of You – And It's Dangerous»
(it's smartphones)
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@BlueGreenGrey Very good points.
I think for most of us it's a matter of sink or swim or at least flounder along, because the big companies running it all are pushing us ever further along their own road.
All we can do is embrace what is genuinely useful to us, ignore the rest and make life as awkward as we can for those commercial behemoths and hegemonists for whom we are the goods and servants, not vice-versa.
I think for most of us it's a matter of sink or swim or at least flounder along, because the big companies running it all are pushing us ever further along their own road.
All we can do is embrace what is genuinely useful to us, ignore the rest and make life as awkward as we can for those commercial behemoths and hegemonists for whom we are the goods and servants, not vice-versa.