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No, this is not future shock - quite the contrary. Future shock comes from "enormous structural change". As David Graeber pointed out, major structural change
by goodpoint 5y ago
No, this is not future shock - quite the contrary.
Future shock comes from "enormous structural change". As David Graeber pointed out, major structural change and scientific breakthroughs slowed down to a crawl.
E.g. we don't have teleportation, warp engines and computers integrated in our skulls. Not even flying cars. Compare it with the changes between 1910 and 1960.
Here we are seeing the opposite: endless churn and reinvention of the wheel around very minor stuff.
Graeber got a lot of backlash for pointing out this facts. We are not supposed to criticize the gods of technology.
- rileyphone 5y agoSmartphones are basically computers in our skulls, a radical shift in human existence from not looking at computers for most people to being tied to one for hours a day. You can pretend the world isn't rapidly changing but that's just a bias to living in the present. Of course we haven't invented fantastical physics defying devices yet but the technological difference between now and 1970 is just as start as the one between 1910 and 1960, just in different ways.
- goodpoint 5y ago> We are not supposed to criticize the gods of technology. The downvotes are coming as expected.