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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 ra

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.

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.