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by lm28469
2676 days ago
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Only the future will tell. Maybe it's me being pessimistic but so far tech (for the masses) is mostly used for: - making money through ads. - enabling people to live their shallow ego trips on fb / ig / whatever is used these days. (influencers, &c.) - drown people in endless entertainment to make their work/sleep cycle tolerable. None of this is helping society is a whole, but, sure we have nice electric cars 90% of the population can't afford and we'll soon send rocket to Mars. Do we need $2.6k foldable phone ? pizza delivery drones ? same day delivery ? slaves delivering food through apps like deliveroo ? Is that the best we can do with tech today ?
Or is it just enabling our mindless consume / produce cycle with no end goal ? For every meaningful tech advance we have 10 startups raising millions to press a fruit bag [0] or be a rental agency [1].
It's like a sad and lame black mirror episode. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/01/juicero-s... [1] https://www.wework.com |
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