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No worries, mate, just another shiny toy. As far as us getting milked for every bit of money, this has been going on for some time now, nothing really new, righ
by greenhearth 4y ago
No worries, mate, just another shiny toy. As far as us getting milked for every bit of money, this has been going on for some time now, nothing really new, right? Douglas Adams put it best - "I've been to the future. It's the same as anywhere else. Just the same old stuff in faster cars and smellier air."
- Xeoncross 4y agoWhat is interesting to me is the decline in both understanding and communication abilities. When I look at modern speech and compare it to books written hundreds of years ago the deficiencies are stark. I can't imagine how poorly people will speak and mentally process emotions in 20 years.
- EMIRELADERO 4y agoThat is a non-sequitor. If you took an average working-class, "blue collar" person from hundreds of years ago, they would speak very differently from how those books are written.
- duderific 4y agoOk, maybe a better comparison that is sort of apples to apples would be to take a speech by George W. Bush or Donald Trump compared to say, George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. Surely you can see there is a sharp drop off in vocabulary and ability (or desire) to convey complex ideas.
- I-M-S 4y agoOr think of it as signal to noise ratio improving. Complex words often hide simple thoughts.
- rchaud 4y ago> books written hundreds of years ago How many of these books are representative of how average people spoke then?