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…

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    1 month ago

    What your experiencing is a kind of social decay due to people being squeeze more and more, and not just economically.

    This isn’t specific to tech though, if there was no tech, they would just find other ways to make life harder.

    This is just the journey we’ve been on since the Industrial Revolution where the market decides what our new environment is for the sake of profit.

    The good news is that it’s a journey of ups and downs, so it could stop being dystopian soon.

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      1 month ago

      This is just the journey we’ve been on since the Industrial Revolution where the market decides what our new environment is for the sake of profit.

      Well said