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If I had to guess, we are very close to a movement that says 'no' to the current overflow of online activity and online presence we saw in the past two decades.
by atan2 3y ago
If I had to guess, we are very close to a movement that says 'no' to the current overflow of online activity and online presence we saw in the past two decades. We see that the new cool thing tends to always clash and go against the current way of doing things. Look at art, movies, music, etc. Every new trend in jazz was a response going against what was hip before. It people play slow, the hip thing is to play fast; if people play in tempo, the new hip thing is to break things.
My bet is that the next "hip" thing will be either off-line or off-tech.
- Tommah 3y ago> My bet is that the next "hip" thing will be either off-line or off-tech. IME, the Internet was much cooler when it took real-life things and improved upon them. If you're a writer, you can post something on a blog, and now potentially anybody in the world can read it. If you like to play chess but you're in an isolated area with few other players, you can go online and play on there. If you have kids and you want their grandparents to see how they're growing, you can send them the pictures online, etc., etc. But so much online activity these days is only about itself, and it turns out vapid and pointless. Manufactured outrage on Twitter, "lifestyle" pics on Instagram, political battles with your cousins on Facebook, etc. really add nothing to anyone's life. And these things only exist because the platforms are there to provide a place for them. No one walks down the street looking for strangers to argue with, or holding pictures of food to show to people. I hope we, or at least the younger generations, will eventually see Twitter and Facebook and the rest for the wastelands that they mostly are. And I hope something else comes along that lets people actually hear each other, that magnifies good ideas, and that rewards effort.
- hbossy 3y agoI've heard some rap song on the gym last week and the artist was boasting that he threw his phone in the sea because he sees all his real friends in person.
- _sys49152 3y agoright....which would include a delivery service or subscription of some sort. like loadstar, the monthly disk magazine right back into the eighties
- atan2 3y agoI'm not saying this will be everyone. It's a movement. And the past shows that the start will be the "elite" that has the luxury of saying no to what the majority of us considers essential. Spending too much time online will be as square as wearing a shirt with a big brand logo or eating processed food. It'll be "something low-class people do."
- babyshake 3y agoOne thing I have been considering after using the Vision Pro is how spatial computing potentially could make "slow computing" more in vogue, where more experiential activities get preference over sludging through toxic social media histrionics.
- ta988 3y agoOr the VR space will be like today's average podcast, low quality content filled with ads.
- mvkel 3y agoTo me this rings similar to the laments around news: "why does it always have to be bad news, can't we see the good news every once in a while?" If it didn't work, we wouldn't see it. If the only way to stop it is through the sheer willpower of a society, it just won't happen. In my opinion, going offline has to be experientially better than staying online, not just a counter-culture pendulum swing.
- mortify 3y agoNo one needed to do much with the news. Maybe the weather needed to be semi-accurate so I knew what to wear tomorrow, but my actions rarely hinged on the 3 car pileup that happened 8 hours ago or the money embezzled from a bank that I don't do business with. People do use the Easterweb to accomplish things: find out how to fix your car, code a mobile app, or buy parts for your refrigerator. If people cannot accomplish these things, traffic and the number of useful sites will drop. The mindless fear-inducing echo chambers will always be there.
- supriyo-biswas 3y ago> My bet is that the next "hip" thing will be either off-line or off-tech. I hope for the same thing. People filtering their best experiences to post on social media was already a thing, and now with LLMs and generative image and video models turning up fake interactions even more, people may eventually turn towards meeting friends and performing social activities IRL.
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