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Somewhere along the way we forgot that technology was supposed to serve us, not the shareholders. I’m still not convinced even computing was a particularly goo
by cedws 8mo ago
Somewhere along the way we forgot that technology was supposed to serve us, not the shareholders.
I’m still not convinced even computing was a particularly good idea. It has enabled prosperity in some areas, like aiding drug research. It has also massively corroded the social fabric.
The productivity gains from computing were never reflected in wages. In the latter half of last century you could buy a home and support a family on one income. Now, you need two average incomes to even start to think about having a family. And then you surrender your children to be raised by someone else because you have to go to work.
Are computers serving us, or are we serving them?
- drecked 8mo ago> It has enabled prosperity in some areas, like aiding drug research. At first I scoffed at your idea that computing itself may not have been a good advancement. And then I saw your example of where computers have helped and I’m wondering that even there, did the lives saved and the quality of life improvements from the accelerated drug research, outnumber the lives lost and the worsened lives quality of life because of hundreds of millions of people’s work now becoming being stuck in a chair behind a monitor and keyboard all day?
- direwolf20 8mo agoWorking at a computer isn't a worse quality of life any more than any other job. It's actually pretty nice versus being a plumber or something. No sewage in the workplace.
- direwolf20 8mo agoWe are hackers. We can make technology that serves us. But why don't we?