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It's interesting how teachers and society in general welcomed the addition of the computer with such enthusiasm and optimism. Excitement at brining new science

It's interesting how teachers and society in general welcomed the addition of the computer with such enthusiasm and optimism. Excitement at brining new science and technology to young ones and the hope and belief it would make society better. Pretty different from nowadays when new technology is met with fear, skepticism, cynicism, nihilism, and paranoia.

whatshisface 3y ago
I think people would still feel pretty positive about a new way to make particle board, it's the surveillance and psychological manipulation that makes everybody hate tech. If we somehow got rid of them, computers would be exciting to the public again.
add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
In the past it was easy to be romantic about flying cars. Today we understand they'd be built shoddily and rushed to market for the sake of short term profit, require mandatory subscription fees for basic features, spy on us, and come with falsely advertised self driving features. We didn't become skeptical of technology spontaneously.
asdff 3y ago
Honestly I blame my generation for absolutely ruining computing in good faith in the classroom. They gave us big desktop workstations without any sort of internet content filtering or even much of a need to use one with our schoolwork. It was an absurd amount of trust placed into 12 year olds hands. We would just web browse stupid sites, watch videos, play games, anything but schoolwork. Of course there was one IT worker in the school, and after what was in hindsight a very surprising amount of time they must have started checking logs and trying to route around what we were doing. It was like an arms race. Eventually it got to a point where they would reimage all the workstations nightly and made a big announcement about it. I'm sure they loved us.
guappa 3y ago
> Pretty different from nowadays when new technology is met with fear, skepticism, cynicism, nihilism, and paranoia. Could that be because initially they were products, and now we are the product?
oven9342 3y ago
Not only that, but there are even studies that question the usefulness of ~~investing~~ spending money in computer devices. All that Aforementioned enthusiasm and illusion were implemented into the educational systems without first assessing its scientific foundation. It’s like if surgeons started using plastic knives just because stainless steel looks dated, for example. These grumpy outdated Cassandras, who question the validity of change for the sake of change must be ignored in their laments because computer devices are very expensive and have a short lifespan, making them perfect for draining public resources Page 147: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264239555-en.pdf?expires=1709540568&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=CAC0113E8D9D6ADF39E7380E72C9B082 https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264239555-en.pdf...

whatshisface 3y ago

I think people would still feel pretty positive about a new way to make particle board, it's the surveillance and psychological manipulation that makes everybody hate tech. If we somehow got rid of them, computers would be exciting to the public again.

add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

In the past it was easy to be romantic about flying cars. Today we understand they'd be built shoddily and rushed to market for the sake of short term profit, require mandatory subscription fees for basic features, spy on us, and come with falsely advertised self driving features. We didn't become skeptical of technology spontaneously.

asdff 3y ago

Honestly I blame my generation for absolutely ruining computing in good faith in the classroom. They gave us big desktop workstations without any sort of internet content filtering or even much of a need to use one with our schoolwork. It was an absurd amount of trust placed into 12 year olds hands. We would just web browse stupid sites, watch videos, play games, anything but schoolwork. Of course there was one IT worker in the school, and after what was in hindsight a very surprising amount of time they must have started checking logs and trying to route around what we were doing. It was like an arms race. Eventually it got to a point where they would reimage all the workstations nightly and made a big announcement about it. I'm sure they loved us.

guappa 3y ago

> Pretty different from nowadays when new technology is met with fear, skepticism, cynicism, nihilism, and paranoia. Could that be because initially they were products, and now we are the product?

oven9342 3y ago

Not only that, but there are even studies that question the usefulness of ~~investing~~ spending money in computer devices. All that Aforementioned enthusiasm and illusion were implemented into the educational systems without first assessing its scientific foundation. It’s like if surgeons started using plastic knives just because stainless steel looks dated, for example. These grumpy outdated Cassandras, who question the validity of change for the sake of change must be ignored in their laments because computer devices are very expensive and have a short lifespan, making them perfect for draining public resources Page 147: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264239555-en.pdf?expires=1709540568&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=CAC0113E8D9D6ADF39E7380E72C9B082 https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264239555-en.pdf...