that’s all very nice but you don’t get a vote on how this turns out. very few if any will.
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Wanderer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Previous increases in automation and productivity have brought new goods, services, wealth. To be perfectly honest I’m largely done.
The next wave of progress needs to not bring new things but to bring more time off.
The only things I probably want in terms of future tech is medical advances and VR. Everything else fuck it. I’m okay with all the media we got, the Internet, TV games, food, hobbies. I don’t have smart anything except a phone. I’m done.
Give me a 4 day work week for what I have now. Then 3 then 2 then 1. I’m done. I don’t need more.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Wanderer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Of course I do.
I can vote for someone to represent me in government. The problem is the voting system is shit that no one will vote to change and that people vote for idiots.
At this point it’s the people fault.
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 8 months ago
And how would you know? Before cars nobody anticipated them. Same with cars, planes, computers... You won't anticipate close to all new tech by extrapolating what we have.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I don’t want a car. I don’t have one currently. In 1829 Stephenson showed trains were the future and that remains the same today.
I’m not convinced planes and computers have been good for the world. Though I have enjoyed them both tremendously.
But I’m ready to be an old man holding on to old tech. Fuck man. You ever quit your job and travelled the world? Playing poker on a wooden bench with a single light bulb next to the beach, with people you met that day is so much better than the Internet. The shame of it is that most people haven’t.
We gave up community and happiness for isolation and sadness.
Also I’m old enough to have seen personal computers change the world. A lot has been lost in the last 20 decades.
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 8 months ago
Yep, done that. And I agree it's great. I need a plane to visit the beach though.
Fudoshin@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Sounds like something I’ve seen in the Unabombers Manifesto.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I have been meaning to read that.
Technology and happiness aren’t correlated though. That’s nothing new.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Where would you go if you could do that kind of thing again?
Wanderer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You mean travelling?
I’ve done that sort of thing in south America and south east Asia but it is getting rarer, a lot rarer. Mobile internet in Burma (before the recent war) for example seemed better than the mobile Internet in the UK. That country only opened to tourism in 1992 is a war zone, holds the record for longest running civil war and at least initially (way before i was there) you had to buy a data pack directly on the black market from the military. But while I was there it was pretty safe and I didn’t feel in danger, but it just goes to show how much the world has moved on.
Generally the poorer the country and the more remote the better chance you got. If you go to Southern Thailand then everyone will just be drinking on the beach or doing things like tours. If you go to a beach resort in Vietnam or Cambodia where there are no shops/bars on the beach. You more likely to have something in the hostel to keep you busy. Basically if people are bored and there is nothing else to do they will talk and play games, if there is something else to do they will do that. Multiday boat trips can be good actually because you are stuck together, that’s the last time I felt that community.
South east Asia and South America I would still recommend travelling though. I have heard very good things about the Stans (probably exculding afganistan and pakistan). Met a few people who travelled from Europe to Asia and they said nothing but good things, that may be an option I don’t know.