TBH, everything always goes to crap when the powers that be defund education. Lack of historical understanding always leads to the same result.
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Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 6 days agoI remember the 90s early 2000s when it felt like we were sort of all going in the right direction and technology would help build a better future.
But then again, history always goes in cycles and it would be reasonable to expect information technology to (initially?) lead to really bad outcomes, just with industrialization and WW1/WW2.
It took the horrors of the two world wars for people to get out of their stupor.
devolution@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Asafum@feddit.nl 6 days ago
I honestly kind of hate that I grew up in the 90s… Born mid 80s and was old enough in the 90s to have my childhood engrained with this idea that the future was all progress from there on out. Then the 2000s come along with a big ol’ middle finger and it’s just been fascists all the way down and economic decline from there. :/
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I am the same age as you and I feel you.
But then again, I guess it’s up to us to make contribution to a better world (like the from our childhood).
Nothing comes easy.
grue@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Not economic decline; spiraling inequality. Which is even worse, in some important ways.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That is economic decline. That someone’s line goes up in all relative units on a graph doesn’t mean it’s growth.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Same shit here.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 days ago
We were going in that direction with too much trust and enthusiasm.
Then humongous corps played along to these emotions, while building something that wasn’t considered normal in the rest of the economy for many decades.
OK, honestly I’m tired of this shit, I think I’m going to start making toys of my own making in some scripting language to illustrate how it should work, not thinking about real world use. I’ve made one, I won’t show it to anyone, but the fact that it worked at all is nice, I guess.
I couldn’t force myself try starting on the latest idea, because it involves too much instances of “probably need something like”. Maybe I should just assume those parts as unreliable good-trust connections, as it was done with most of the real web model.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
90’s Internet: would you like to play chess with someone from across the globe? You could learn about their culture and how much you have in common!
Users: no thanks, I’m busy making racist videos using this energy hungry AI tool.