Technus@lemmy.zip
on 08 Jun 2024 17:34
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I think a new kind of human being is taking shape, under the presumption that what most counts about us can be quantified and codified, but that presumption, while it eliminates many forms of friction and oppression, is also progressively devastating the deepest forms of human communion,
That’s not the Internet’s fault, that’s Capitalism’s. The Internet just accelerated it.
Go back 20 years, and the Internet didn’t give a flying fuck about who you were and what you could be manipulated into buying or thinking. It showed you the same ads no matter what you were into. It was just a place where people posted cool shit they’d created. Venture capitalism made it what it is today.
chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net
on 08 Jun 2024 17:52
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It’s a shame bar washroom stalls didn’t get disrupted by VC money; it remains a pure place where people continue to post whatever they want without a care as to who sees it.
tsonfeir@lemmy.world
on 08 Jun 2024 17:39
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The problem with a world without the internet is that horrible crimes can go unnoticed, and people can be controlled far easier, without the ability to communicate freely and privately over large distances.
If today’s technology was from the 80s, everyone would be supporting Israel, Weinstein would still be producing movies, and climate change would still be fringe science.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
on 09 Jun 2024 00:18
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No. I am a meat sandwich.
I believe that’s meat popsicle.
Smoke you very much.
That’s not the Internet’s fault, that’s Capitalism’s. The Internet just accelerated it.
Go back 20 years, and the Internet didn’t give a flying fuck about who you were and what you could be manipulated into buying or thinking. It showed you the same ads no matter what you were into. It was just a place where people posted cool shit they’d created. Venture capitalism made it what it is today.
It’s a shame bar washroom stalls didn’t get disrupted by VC money; it remains a pure place where people continue to post whatever they want without a care as to who sees it.
The problem with a world without the internet is that horrible crimes can go unnoticed, and people can be controlled far easier, without the ability to communicate freely and privately over large distances.
If today’s technology was from the 80s, everyone would be supporting Israel, Weinstein would still be producing movies, and climate change would still be fringe science.
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