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Too much tech and reliance on tech; Less tech? Not being a luddite, just making an observation. The biggest threat to modern society, nation security,mental he
by _8j50 5y ago
Too much tech and reliance on tech; Less tech?
Not being a luddite, just making an observation. The biggest threat to modern society, nation security,mental health,etc... you name it, is too much tech too fast with not enough social frameworks to adopt to it. The adoptin will come but all the big social pains are part of the adoption process which could be less painful at a slower pace. Wrt reliance on tech, it creates a power imbalance where adopters gain short term advantage over non-adapting people, the reverse is true as well. For example, the US military us relying on drones and ships with reduced manpower, not simply because they can but they realized getting a large number of americans fit for service or manufacturing ships, planes and tanks at WW2(or more) scale is impossible due to americans being physically unfit but also because of the wastefulness and inefficiency of the military indistrial comples. Instead of solving underlying issues, it was solved with tech. So if China for example catches up with tech against US, all they have to do is not rely purely on tech like the US and use body count to win any conventional conflict. I am just using that as one example.
Let's say I am relying on uber and a grocery delivery app. Being able to have a reliable phone and a working app (and a working not-banned account) is a dependency for my basic needs. This is not a convenience but a reliance. Lack of public transportation or grocery stores within walking distance of residential areas could be an underlying problem covered up with tech reliance and those who refuse to adopt tech are excluded from opportunities. This is an example but I literally can't enter my apartment without an app, every resident is an involuntary adaptor of some app.
I didn't want to pick more controversial examples but every major modern problem I see, I can connect it to this issue.
Sorry if this doesn't help you come up with a solution given this is HN.