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Glad I found this useful post while refreshing HN for some mental stimulus. A book I found silly when I read it was Future shock. It said that change and infor
by thewarrior 6y ago
Glad I found this useful post while refreshing HN for some mental stimulus.
A book I found silly when I read it was Future shock. It said that change and information would be so rapid in the future that people would be in permanent state of shock. Seemed like a ridiculous notion at the time but not anymore.
22 year old me read about the Jewish tradition of Sabbath day and found it so silly. A day where you’re not supposed to use any technology or do any productive work ? How silly !
I totally get it now. They were onto something. We’ve now reinvented it as “digital detox” and “dopamine fasting”.
Got my hit by writing this comment now off to the the next post I go.
- bquest2 6y agoI fed your addiction by giving you an upvote. I hope you enjoy that number next to your username, representing Karma go up. You should try to get the high score.
- Nasrudith 6y agoI think future shock is something for the non-young period. If you are young you don't have a set of norms embedded and are adapting to the new. Phenomenally messed up things like domestic violence can be assumed normal because that is their baseline. This is because of a lack of a strong baseline trained in to have dissonance towards.