We should’ve never allowed internet onto our game consoles now we get buggy releases and worthless digital games that get revoked arbitrarily when you insult your government or local corporation.
I’d argue it all went down hill with the industrial revolution. That’s right, they’ve twisted me into agreeing with Ted Kaczynski.
Too many progress traps
Ted’s methods were unconventional and ineffective, but he was right.
Downloading file parts from the usenet before manually joining them and decoding them really made you more selective and intentional about which media* you consumed. Now I’m served 5 minute videos with a triple split of 6 second clips.
Great point
Computers used to scream out in main when connected to the Internet. It was a warning.
sighs in netscape navigator
I was 10 years old when my parents brought broadband internet in to our home… I was never the same.
Propaganda has been a thing long before the internet and will likely be a thing until the complete collapse of human society.
The problem isnt that technology exists, its that we go through phases where we assume it will only ever be used to make our lives easier, not to subjugate us.
Well said. It’s arguably still a net good even as is because it’s easier than ever to verify it, whereas to get the propaganda message out, you’re competing for attention on the web instead of on the street, but on the street it’s not as easy to verify what you hear.
Not that most people do, but they could
I remember using my college computer room to go online in chat rooms etc for hours before heading home, good times, traumatic images
