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What’s “real-world tech”?
by goldenchrome 4y ago
What’s “real-world tech”?
- honkler 4y agonow you'll ask what are "bullshit jobs"
- quickthrower2 4y agoI assume this means things like cars, factories, infrastructure, building industry, military and so on. One of the biggest/famous companies in the world with the most cash is in the US needs China to make it’s devices still. That might tell us something. Are we (westerners) the sheep being well fed, for now?
- fleddr 4y agoTech producing real, hard, undisputed value, typically in the real world. To make the distinction more clear, think of what you can take away. Facebook could stop today and society will be just fine, despite some moaning here and there. The same is not true when you take away real world essentials.
- substation13 4y agoI think WhatsApp has real, hard, undisputed value.
- fleddr 4y agoNo, it doesn't. It has value but no hard value. Perhaps to clarify what HARD means: not getting the necessities of life. Food, energy, health, transport, defense. It's existential.
- unionpivo 4y agoIt has some value. But if it goes away, there are other Apps that work similary. Maybe not as slick, or have all the features, but they have most of them. Hell even if whole App messenger ecosystem would go away, people could go back to SMS and voice calls and still manage to do 70-80% of what they used WhatsApp for. Now consider what would happen if hardware phone vendors would go away. Or car makers. Or ...