There was a time when computers were designed to grow our culture:
www.quora.com/…/Harri-K-Hiltunen
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PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 1 week agoSo our technological progress has brutally outgrown our cultural one. I think you’re right.
Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 1 week ago
krydret_ismaskine@feddit.dk 1 week ago
That’s exactly it. Our biases and community instincts (for lack of a better word) can’t keep up with the firehose of information and direct communication with so many people and from so many sources.
In the past, small societies sort of kept things in check. You knew the people around you and everyone sort of found a common ground to share. Like when I was a kid in the countryside, I made friends with the other kids on our road because of proximity, not because we had tons in common. But we became friends despite being different and gained new experiences and built common ground through that. We learned to compromise and solve differences or issues.
Today you can find community anywhere online, so you’re less likely to have your “rough edges” smoothed out a bit.
Not that life in small societies is perfect, Svante described the Jantelov for a good reason, some small villages communities can get very insular, xenophobic and oppressive of anyone slightly off from the standard mold.
But I do think our range and speed of communication has outpaced our instincts and reference frames.
saimen@feddit.org 1 week ago
I think the same thing happened in the beginning of the 20th century and partly is the reason for the two world wars which makes me afraid of the future seeing the global development of increasing tension and rearmament.