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Facebook, Twitter, reddit are still trivial. I'm not doing SO MUCH BETTER than my parents because I have those things and they didn't. The internet isn't triv

Facebook, Twitter, reddit are still trivial. I'm not doing SO MUCH BETTER than my parents because I have those things and they didn't. The internet isn't trivial but I wouldn't say that my life is SO MUCH BETTER because I have internet. My parents did great without internet.

candu 12y ago
"Farming is still trivial. I'm not doing SO MUCH BETTER than my parents because I grow food instead of hunting for it. My parents did great as hunter-gatherers."
- TomSattel 12y ago
  Hunter gatherers had violent lives, experienced starvation and died in their thirties. So it's not a fair comparison.
  - TeMPOraL 12y ago
    They also had happy lives, didn't have to slave themselves for 2/3 of their lives to get food and shelter, and no, they didn't die in their thirties, they lived as long as we do. Oh, and also they didn't have so many diseases - it's another thing we got from settling down and becoming agrarian.
    - TomSattel 12y ago
      The point is, just because we have reddit and facebook now doesn't mean we're all just so much better off. The contribution of those products to our lives is rather trivial. Even the internet, while it's very impressive and useful and interesting, has not made everyone in our generation better off. It's cool to have but like I said, my parents and grandparents were fine without it. In fact they were probably more fine than many of technologically most advanced people on this forum.
      - TeMPOraL 12y ago
        > The point is, just because we have reddit and facebook now doesn't mean we're all just so much better off. That I agree with. > The contribution of those products to our lives is rather trivial. Even the internet, while it's very impressive and useful and interesting, has not made everyone in our generation better off. And that I disagree with. The Internet, and services like Facebook and Reddit are turning humanity into a giant hive mind - millions of people constantly connected in amost-instant form of communication and exchange of ideas. This is something unprecedenced. > It's cool to have but like I said, my parents and grandparents were fine without it. Your parents and grandparents were probably fine without it, but this is the standard case of Blub paradox - people always work with what they know and every improvement feels like useless nonsense until you actually try it; then you start asking, how people could live without said improvement. My previous comment was picking on the notion of old hunter-gatherers being in significantly worse situation than societies nowdays. My current belief is that our technology makes world for the current generation better than the generation of our fathers and grandfathers, but we might not be necessarily better off than people in pre-agrarian times.

candu 12y ago

"Farming is still trivial. I'm not doing SO MUCH BETTER than my parents because I grow food instead of hunting for it. My parents did great as hunter-gatherers."

TomSattel 12y ago
Hunter gatherers had violent lives, experienced starvation and died in their thirties. So it's not a fair comparison.
- TeMPOraL 12y ago
  They also had happy lives, didn't have to slave themselves for 2/3 of their lives to get food and shelter, and no, they didn't die in their thirties, they lived as long as we do. Oh, and also they didn't have so many diseases - it's another thing we got from settling down and becoming agrarian.
  - TomSattel 12y ago
    The point is, just because we have reddit and facebook now doesn't mean we're all just so much better off. The contribution of those products to our lives is rather trivial. Even the internet, while it's very impressive and useful and interesting, has not made everyone in our generation better off. It's cool to have but like I said, my parents and grandparents were fine without it. In fact they were probably more fine than many of technologically most advanced people on this forum.
    - TeMPOraL 12y ago
      > The point is, just because we have reddit and facebook now doesn't mean we're all just so much better off. That I agree with. > The contribution of those products to our lives is rather trivial. Even the internet, while it's very impressive and useful and interesting, has not made everyone in our generation better off. And that I disagree with. The Internet, and services like Facebook and Reddit are turning humanity into a giant hive mind - millions of people constantly connected in amost-instant form of communication and exchange of ideas. This is something unprecedenced. > It's cool to have but like I said, my parents and grandparents were fine without it. Your parents and grandparents were probably fine without it, but this is the standard case of Blub paradox - people always work with what they know and every improvement feels like useless nonsense until you actually try it; then you start asking, how people could live without said improvement. My previous comment was picking on the notion of old hunter-gatherers being in significantly worse situation than societies nowdays. My current belief is that our technology makes world for the current generation better than the generation of our fathers and grandfathers, but we might not be necessarily better off than people in pre-agrarian times.