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by car_analogy
1482 days ago
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They seem to react strongly to the scenes in The Lives of Others with the Stasi eavesdropping and covertly opening physical mail. But do it "on a computer", and the aversion seems to diminish. Because after all, we don't talk about anything important on a computer - for that, we type up and send a physical letter. |
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Yeah, that's definitely a sentiment I've seen many times. I'm not sure if there's any scientific explanation/proof, but I see claims that the "vast majority of people are averse to [any] change" a lot in articles and books.
The problem is that the world doesn't care, and changes anyway. So we've moved financials and military to the digital world - which should be the very definition of "important" or "serious" - but people's perception of computers stayed mostly the same: tools for playing games, gossiping with friends, and watching funny cat videos. I think the general population will only catch up to the changes the IT revolution brought in a generation or two. By that time it'll be too late for any kind of regulation, I'm afraid.