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Isolating tech goes earlier than that. I know all my neighbours in my block who walk, cycle, or take the bus. Repeated interactions. The ones who take the elev
by rahulnair23 1y ago
Isolating tech goes earlier than that.
I know all my neighbours in my block who walk, cycle, or take the bus. Repeated interactions. The ones who take the elevator to the basement car park are the ones I never cross paths with.
- federiconafria 1y agoThat's what I was thinking, if social media was not there, would we be more social? Or is it really the fact that our necessities can be covered without being social the real "problem".
- 9rx 1y agoI expect the latter. Social media isn't social in any meaningful sense. It is more like an interactive diary or interactive television. Any human involvement behind the scenes is merely an implementation detail — and with the way AI is going, an implementation detail that may not even remain for much longer. Social media may reduce overall social interaction, but only in the same way that reading books reduced social interaction. There is only so much time in the day; but that doesn't make all uses of time equivalent.
- Kye 1y agoThere's an Outer Limits episode about this: https://breezewiki.com/theouterlimits/wiki/The_Haven https://breezewiki.com/theouterlimits/wiki/The_Haven Season 5, Episode 15 (1999)