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We're so enthusiastic about the possibilities the internet offers us that we want to do everything online now, even things we're hardwired to do irl. Inane chat

by mtts 15y ago

We're so enthusiastic about the possibilities the internet offers us that we want to do everything online now, even things we're hardwired to do irl. Inane chatter in real life causes your body to release hormones that make you feel good. Inane chatter on facebook not so much. So maybe the future is indeed that we learn to take the internet for what it is: a fantastic tool for disseminating information and doing business, but nothing more. So the challenge will be to give people meaningful ways to interact with each other in real life now that the human component has been taken out of things like education and shopping.

icebraining 15y ago
We're so enthusiastic about the possibilities the internet offers us that we want to do everything online now, even things we're hardwired to do irl. We're "hardwired" to do everything IRL, simply because we couldn't have evoved to adapt to it in such a small period of time. But here's others technologies that we weren't "hardwired" for, and which actually "re-wired" us: Language and Agriculture. I'm having an hard time figuring out how doesn't your argument apply to them too. Inane chatter in real life causes your body to release hormones that make you feel good. Inane chatter on facebook not so much. Well, I actually find inane chatter to be painful anywhere, but; the Internet is just Facebook now? I'm not hardwired to play online games, but they do make our bodies release dopamine and cortisol, even though we're not hardwired for it. So maybe the future is indeed that we learn to take the internet for what it is: a fantastic tool for disseminating information and doing business, but nothing more. But we're not hardwired for that either. How is that application good? Shouldn't we be transmitting information in form of songs, as it's natural? So the challenge will be to give people meaningful ways to interact with each other in real life now that the human component has been taken out of things like education and shopping. When was the human component taken out of things like education? And did the introduction of the web really remove a meaningful interaction, or did it just free up time that can now be spent with e.g. your family instead of with salespeople? Because that's my (anecdotal) experience.

by mtts 15y ago

icebraining 15y ago

We're so enthusiastic about the possibilities the internet offers us that we want to do everything online now, even things we're hardwired to do irl. We're "hardwired" to do everything IRL, simply because we couldn't have evoved to adapt to it in such a small period of time. But here's others technologies that we weren't "hardwired" for, and which actually "re-wired" us: Language and Agriculture. I'm having an hard time figuring out how doesn't your argument apply to them too. Inane chatter in real life causes your body to release hormones that make you feel good. Inane chatter on facebook not so much. Well, I actually find inane chatter to be painful anywhere, but; the Internet is just Facebook now? I'm not hardwired to play online games, but they do make our bodies release dopamine and cortisol, even though we're not hardwired for it. So maybe the future is indeed that we learn to take the internet for what it is: a fantastic tool for disseminating information and doing business, but nothing more. But we're not hardwired for that either. How is that application good? Shouldn't we be transmitting information in form of songs, as it's natural? So the challenge will be to give people meaningful ways to interact with each other in real life now that the human component has been taken out of things like education and shopping. When was the human component taken out of things like education? And did the introduction of the web really remove a meaningful interaction, or did it just free up time that can now be spent with e.g. your family instead of with salespeople? Because that's my (anecdotal) experience.