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Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've just been reading about how in the future, AI will allow us to speak with animals, and people will be able to communicate telepathically and live in their own VR worlds. (etc., etc.)

Man, this isn't a world I want to live in. I'm so tired of the constant paradigm shifting that you have to put your brain through with each innovation. I wish technology just stayed frozen in the 1980s – there would be so much less uncertainty in my life and I could just focus on being a human.

Innovation keeps being forced on you and I just feel tired. >!And I'm only just in my 20s!< Is this ok? Is this valid? When resisting it is a loser's game...

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Who are you to dictate who needs what? I definitely "need" a smart fridge from my example because I always forget to make a list before I go to the grocery store. It would save me so much time and money.

You honestly sound like the old fucks of ancient times past who always bitched about new "tech":

Damn smartphones, ruining society
Damn internet, ruining society
Damn personal computers, ruining society
Damn video games, ruining society
Damn television, ruining society
Damn comic books, ruining society
Damn rock and roll music, ruining society
Damn jazz music, ruining society
Damn movies, ruining society
Damn automobiles, ruining society
Damn telephones, ruining society
Damn electricity, ruining society
Damn novels, ruining society
Damn newspapers, ruining society
Damn printing press, ruining society
Damn written language, ruining society
Damn iron tools, ruining society
Damn bronze weapons, ruining society
Damn agriculture, ruining society
Damn fire, ruining society

Nothing is stopping you from running away into the mountains to life a tech free life

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

You honestly sound like the old fucks

I do, and that's what concerns me. Because I'm only in my 20s. I could disconnect for a while, but I'm always going to have to return to society, whose constant changing caused this fatigue, eventually.