Just found an interesting quote from buffy the vampire slayer for our technodystopia.

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨HubertManne@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨aboringdystopia@lemmy.world⁩

I was watching buffy and the eighth episode of the first season a demon is scanned into the computers. This is a funny time as its when people where online with dialup. All the same it had a quote I feel is apropos to the current period. Truns out that show had a bit of the simpsons precog ability:

Giles: Nonsense! I simply don't adhere to a, a knee-jerk assumption that because something is new, it's better.

Ms. Calendar: This isn't a fad, Rupert! We are creating a new society here.

Giles: A society in which human interaction is all but obsolete? In which people can be completely manipulated by technology, well, well... Thank you, I'll pass.

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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

A society in which human interaction is all but obsolete?

This is the notion that I always hated growing up. We are humans interacting with other right right fucking now. And we are doing so over the internet.

The internet is a literal communications tool for fuck’s sake!

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- HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  There is a noticable difference in electronic communication. Before the internet there were plenty of people that hated being on the phone instead of face to face. Something is lost with each loss of the physical experience. From in person to voice to text. Granted video calls actually are a bit of an improvment to a phone call as far as human connection goes.
  
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  - Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’m sure people made the same arguments against writing letters and the telegraph.
    
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- Nikelui@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Unless you are a bot, interacting with orher bots. Damn, I feel old thinking how the internet used to be good.
  
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Well, we aren’t manipulated by technology per se, but by the humans who control the technology. Could have been nice if Silicon Valley wasn’t so damn fascist. But I suppose that’s nitpicking, Giles definitely had the right idea.

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- BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  On that note, can’t wait for another season of black mirror. (it’s not the technology that is evil, but can easily be used for evil)
  
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  - SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    This applies to all technology.
    
    A hammer can be used to build. It can also be used to bludgeon someone’s skull. It’s about who is wielding it and how they choose to use it.
    
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- givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Meh, the evil was usually based on humans.
  
  Steve Bannon made a lot of gold selling virtual wow gold, but even worse he learned how toxic and impressionable young male gamers were. Which lead to Gamergate and the radicalizing of a lot of the current generation…
  
  If anything, Gile was underestimating the dangers.
  
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LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
At the same time technology is neutral, it’s humans who chose this, so frankly less interaction and a bit more technology might be highly beneficial.

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- HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  as long as you don't count software as technology because it, especially algorithms, are often not neutral.
  
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  - geekwithsoul@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The software didn’t code itself
    
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Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Stupid quote and only works if you stupidly believe we weren’t manipulated before the Internet.

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- HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  certainly, but just not as efficiently.
  
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