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Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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I've just been reading about how in the future, AI will allow us to speak with animals, and people will be able to communicate telepathically and live in their own VR worlds. (etc., etc.)

Man, this isn't a world I want to live in. I'm so tired of the constant paradigm shifting that you have to put your brain through with each innovation. I wish technology just stayed frozen in the 1980s – there would be so much less uncertainty in my life and I could just focus on being a human.

Innovation keeps being forced on you and I just feel tired. >!And I'm only just in my 20s!< Is this ok? Is this valid? When resisting it is a loser's game...

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[–] FabledAepitaph 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

At some point, there was this shift where the technology was no longer being designed to benefit the user, but to benefit the creator. The problem is that the creators are now trillion-dollar multi-national organizations who also lobby against my wellbeing and safety in areas of rulemaking and regulation. So now I am fine foregoing the "technology" whenever I can.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think the thing that's causing me the fatigue though is the constant change. For 000s of years people lived their whole lives with no technological change, whereas I've only been here for 2 decades and yet the world already works much differently than it did back then.