Maybe they can all leave for mars and leave us the f alone. We were fine before. Take away my cell phone. Give me an address book, a map and bring back phone booths, atms and over the air tv. We survived before all this tech sh$!, and we can do it again.
Honestly, I think this is one of the big questions of our moment.
How can distinct societies with different technological eco systems co-exist on this planet?
We’ve got extreme examples like monks in monasteries, the Amish, Orthodox Jews etc. But at some point, maybe now, there may be many who’d really like and even at a psychological level “need” to live in a different ecosystem quite different from the wants of “the global market”.
You can try to get a dumb phone or not use AI or whatever. But thinking in terms of hard exclusions and ecosystem health seems to me necessary.
Maybe they can all leave for mars and leave us the f alone. We were fine before. Take away my cell phone. Give me an address book, a map and bring back phone booths, atms and over the air tv. We survived before all this tech sh$!, and we can do it again.
Problem is they would (will) destroy Earth on exodus so no one could follow.
I am so down for this, Santa.
Back to the 90s, gotcha.
Was better in almost every aspect anyway (YMMV)
Honestly, I think this is one of the big questions of our moment.
How can distinct societies with different technological eco systems co-exist on this planet?
We’ve got extreme examples like monks in monasteries, the Amish, Orthodox Jews etc. But at some point, maybe now, there may be many who’d really like and even at a psychological level “need” to live in a different ecosystem quite different from the wants of “the global market”.
You can try to get a dumb phone or not use AI or whatever. But thinking in terms of hard exclusions and ecosystem health seems to me necessary.