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Honestly I'm getting to the point where I'm beginning to think computing was a bad idea.
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
Honestly I'm getting to the point where I'm beginning to think computing was a bad idea.
- vsareto 5y agoDelete all business applications but keep video games.
- formerly_proven 5y agoSand was never meant to do this. Every day we stray further from the light.
- hans1729 5y agoOr water invented man to carry itself up the hill.
- imbnwa 5y agoReza Negarestani likes this idea
- cblconfederate 5y agoThe light belongs to the Sun. Electric lighting is basically cultural appropriation
- wedn3sday 5y agoI think 90% of society would probably be better without having easy every day access to advanced computers. Let the HPC people keep running their physics and chemistry experiments, but maybe we dont all need to have 10 computers surrounding us 24/7.
- zippystrider 5y agoThe drawbacks of accessible computing (e.g. shortened attention span, low-quality media consumption) are vastly outweighed by its potential to allow people social mobility and learn new skills they wouldn't have otherwise. If I were born in an era before computers and the internet, it's unlikely I would have experienced the best works of classical music and hip hop; explored poetry and the great classical books; and taught myself professional skills and improved academically with access to textbooks and online lecture courses. I suppose it's possible I could have looked for real-life pockets of communities where these are celebrated, went to a physical library, and asked for help at a community college. But more likely, I would've just copied what my family and peers were doing when I was younger and missed out on so much growth, because of a lack of connection to people passionate about these things that the internet provided.
- kizer 5y agoThe democratization of information and discussion is invaluable really. Comes with downsides, which have to be addressed of course.
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- speedgoose 5y agoThe average quality of life and life expectancy improved a lot thanks to computing. I'm sorry you don't like emails though.
- ryanelfman 5y agoThis resonated so hard for me. Sounds like depression
- IntelMiner 5y agoThere's a joke I heard a long time ago that I always found amusing, though a lot of my friends I think are sick of "If you went back 300 years and told people you taught rocks to think by blasting them with lightning, they'd burn you at the stake as a witch"
- detaro 5y agoAround Spectre and other microarchitecture vulnerabilities there was a comment along the lines of "we now forced rocks to think so hard they're getting stress disorders :/"