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Hmm... technology sure seems to create, or at least to expose, a lot of societal problems, and does solve a lot of problems in exchange for a lot of money. Not

by cwmoore 2mo ago

Hmm... technology sure seems to create, or at least to expose, a lot of societal problems, and does solve a lot of problems in exchange for a lot of money. Not sure the true rule is as stated.

raffael_de 2mo ago
care to provide examples?
- cwmoore 2mo ago
  No, not really. I’m just questioning the axiomatic statement.
- 9x39 2mo ago
  Social media exposes weakpoints in human nature - mob mentalities, comparisons of global norms over local ones. People died and many more are likely disturbed and divided. India comes to mind as some of the earliest worst-case examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings I buy into teen mental health tanking correlating with the rise of mobile social media in 2012: https://archive.is/frHnA https://archive.is/frHnA I think there's probably far more powerful but hard to describe and prove effects out there in play by connecting to a global async awareness network, but I'll leave it there.
- bradly 2mo ago
  Jean Baudrillard wrote some really great pieces on what the proliferation of technology with things like the clocks and mirrors did to humans. I highly recommend his book The System of Objects (https://archive.org/details/systemofobjects0000baud/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/systemofobjects0000baud/mode/2up).
Muromec 2mo ago
Well, technology anyway is a way to trade one set of problems for another set of problems.