[andrei_says_]

Reading this it occurs to me that this timeline may be moving toward a future where garbage software, garbage information etc. have become the norm for so long that the number of people who can distinguish trash from quality, or signal from noise, has become negligible.

A true era of ignorance, looking like an ocean of nonsense in which no one can really navigate as it is ungrounded in reality.

Idiocracy presents a naively gentle positive version of such future but there are many darker ones possible.

Kali Yuga, indeed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga

[Papazsazsa]

Ignorance is too generous a word. This is epistemic collapse.

[Retric]

Customers abandon companies that fail.

Remember how they used Brando to water plants and it kills them? Eventually mistakes break critical systems and you fail.

[ozgrakkurt]

This is more because less educated people are coming onto the internet and programming.

World was probably more ignorant before but internet/computers as a space was better because it consisted of a different set of people.

There is still a ton of people that do understand quality and produce high quality stuff obviously

[slopinthebag]

Perhaps, but people don't care that much about a bug with Instagram. Once critical infrastructure starts failing people will take notice.

[_doctor_love]

The pralaya is not far away. Soon Shiva will begin his dance. I give us until 2036.

[kshri24]

Pralaya happens after complete age of Brahma. That would be 100 Brahma years. Or 311.04 trillion human years. We are in the 51st year of Brahma.

Kali Yuga lifespan is 432,000 years. Of which we are 4000+ years into it. So that's another 428,000 years of hell on Earth.

[triyambakam]

Yeah like he said, not far away :D

[_doctor_love]

Yep. Fortunately, it’s easy to learn in this case who is right or wrong. See you guys back in the thread in 2037 if all goes well.

[LargoLasskhyfv]

Roger Bonner - When Shiva Dances (4m22s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYsVQPVnLxs

Enjoy...….