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It's weird how all that stuff and much more is still available now, but no-one is in awe anymore. Of course the same could be said of the pre-internet modern er
by vjk800 3y ago
It's weird how all that stuff and much more is still available now, but no-one is in awe anymore. Of course the same could be said of the pre-internet modern era compared to, say the 1700th century.
I guess human mind really is sensitive only to changes and not to absolute state of things. Makes me wonder how much point there really is in continuously making newer and shinier things since the only thing that happens is that people just get used to the new things and are approximately as happy as they were before.
- cube00 3y agoEverything is amazing and nobody is happy.
- bloomingeek 3y agoThis is a great observation and fact! I believe paradigm shifts are almost always missed by the masses. Right now we are in a digital revolution that has morphed into a social media shift. Hardware is too fast for most software, but when it catches up, the results could be mountainous. I'm a senior citizen now who wishes the next paradigm, whatever it will be (Ai?), will happen so I can see it. As for me, happiness is what you make of it, if I want to be happy I have to work for it. When life sucks, I work back to happiness.
- jamal-kumar 3y agoFor what it's worth it seems alot of younger people I know are are pretty much mortified about what you're excited about. Aspiring artists or writers who are out of jobs and stuff like that. Anyone I've met this year who is working in the film industry, for another example...
- ACow_Adonis 3y agoit is hard to convey to people how much of our modern world are cultural beliefs and how much it's shifted. So much is commerce and IP now. it's horrible. I openly gave a talk in my primary school pre-1992 (when we moved) about overcoming copy protections. no one thought i was doing anything wrong. I believe i connected to the internet from our home in AUS sometime around 1994 (when we moved again) or earlier. I can time it because a mortified little me had to find a way to dispose of a picture of a topless lady i accidentally printed out and i rode all the way down to the local shops to throw out in the bin before we moved. I never realised how cutting edge my father was to get us a home connection at the time. But anyway i digress. back then it was HOPE that this technology would result in free sharing of art and knowledge that everyone wanted to place online at their own expense. Now it's fear that it will cut people out of commercialisation. Such a depressing dystopia we live in, and such a horrible shift as the Web (and subsequently all our societies) were gradually taken over by commercial culture :( i can't overstress how important that early internet connection was to me as a child growing up in Australia...
- theobromananda 3y agoI agree, culture has been colonised and turned into capital. It is bleak. I often miss the times before everything was connected.