I'm tired of pretending tech makes things better.  I'm tired of kidding myself that all these apps, these chatbots, these "tools" are doing anything but dragging us into the mud and the shit and calling it progress.  I sat down at a cafe a few days ago, hungry and ready
  • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    522·
    2 months ago

    For the past 20 years, tech has promised to make things more efficient while making almost everything more complicated and less meaningful. Innovation, for innovation’s sake, has eroded our craftsmanship, relationships, and ability to think critically.

    I feel this in my bones.

    • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
      162·
      2 months ago

      They’re conflating tech with tech bros.

      Tech can and does make lots of things that make our lives longer and better. Just not most of the consumer level shit that is constantly peddled by snake oil sellers. That tech is not meant to make your lives easier, it’s meant to get more money out of you without giving it up to the little people at service level.

      The problem isn’t the tech, it’s the people who are controlling the tech.

      • metaldream@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        The problem isn’t the tech, it’s the people who are controlling the tech.

        The tech is literally made by those by people. The tech itself is in fact the problem. You will never have a version of something like social media that’s actually healthy. One way or the other someone with power will get their hands on it and abuse it.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, just print it and stick it on the table. Or have a tablet or something at the table if it changes frequently.

        Don’t make me use my phone to look up your menu, that’s just tacky.

    • htrayl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      Tech has made things more efficient - the rewards of such are simply being funneled from the average person to the wealthy.

      • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Maybe some tech has increased efficiency (although, when it does that increase is more often than not temporary and short lived), but there is even more “tech” that swarms that space rent seeking any time, money, or other resource saved by that increased efficiency. After the efficiencies degrade, the tech-as-a-scam persists and you end up with less efficient systems than you started with.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, just watch what AI does. The generation after Gen Alpha is going to be unable to imagine the concept of being self sustaining, and problem solving without machines. The same way Gen Z today can’t imagine the concept of just NOT having internet. Or any internet connected devices.