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> ...How many hours do you spend staring at a screen, looking at something on the internet? I’m guessing countless hours. Maybe double-digit hours in some cases
by djoldman 1y ago
> ...How many hours do you spend staring at a screen, looking at something on the internet? I’m guessing countless hours. Maybe double-digit hours in some cases. It’s not your fault.
> ...We are slaves to a system we didn’t create.
> ...I don’t know how much of this is a technology problem versus a people problem, but what I do feel is that something needs to change.
> I don’t know if Big Tech will ever change. I think we will continue to see these empires rise. We will continue to see the likes of OpenAI and others fight for our attention. But it’s our attention, and we can take it back.
As the attention economy rolls on, a theme I'm noticing pop up more often is that some folks seem to be uncomfortable with the choices others make.
If we're talking about adults, these adults have the choice to engage in social media and other things that consume attention. Just like folks are allowed to eat however much legally obtained food that they want.
What are we going to do, tell Americans how much TV they can watch, books they can read, or little screens they can look at?
We've been "wasting" time for a long time. There's nothing new here. It's just a higher magnitude of the same concept.
Americans want to look a little screens.
Big tech in this sense is just giving the people what they want.
- asdfaksdf 1y ago[dead]
- pajamasam 1y ago> What are we going to do, tell Americans how much TV they can watch, books they can read, or little screens they can look at? No, I think quite the opposite. I think the idea is for us all to regain our own agency. > Americans want to look a little screens. I'm not convinced. It's like saying someone wants to drink/do drugs when they're addicted. I often hear my friends and family expressing regret about having spent too much time (from their own POV) on their phones. > What are we going to do Create (or market/talk about/etc.) alternatives. Whether it's alternative products/communities/books/whatever. Or help expose what Big Tech is doing by talking about it. Or just live by example if you're not in the trenches of screen addiction yourself. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- throwaway_7274 1y agoSaid like a latter-day William Jardine. Maybe one day we'll have our Commissioner Lin.
- tekbruh9000 1y agoBig tech is giving people what they were born into and TINA'd to believe, offered no alternative. No different than religion. There's no informed consent going on.