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When you spend enough time in the future, you forget all the shitty things about the past that tech has changed and only notice the problems that stand out toda
by solidasparagus 7y ago
When you spend enough time in the future, you forget all the shitty things about the past that tech has changed and only notice the problems that stand out today. Not sure if you're specifically referencing Tahrir Square with your second sentence, but tech has definitely led to real, lasting and immensely positive change worldwide.
- Balgair 7y agoOh yeah, but I think all the wind went out of the sails after Tahrir Square. Before, there was such optimisim about tech. Nothing could stop it. Everything would be just better. Look, the oppressed are rising up together! Look, medicine is getting better! Look, we're talking at each other, not shooting and hurting! The arab spring was the high point, the proofed pudding. After the failures there, sure, yes, tech has helped, has advanced the world. But that optimisim that was in Tahrir Square never came back. FB was a way to talk with each other and be a 3rd space, now it's a Skinner box. Wikipedia was the nascent Enclycopedia Galactica, now it's just mostly good and sometimes suspicious. Google wasn't evil, now it works with China to make Orwell sigh. Things are chugging along, yes. But before people actually thought they could change the world for the better, now tech just has mortgages.