Useless twisting of our new technology
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ASCII pr0n anyone? [nsfw]
Be right back....
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People have always complained about how new tech warps people’s minds. Like back in the day there were people saying the same thing about books when the printing press was invented
Every generation has said stop X it'll rot your brains.
Like you said, it was books at first, children told to go outside, then book readers centuries later told their children to stop watching TV and read a book. Now video games are the latest
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Before the modern web, before Wikipedia, before pocket computers, Encarta was the shit!
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Every generation has said stop X it'll rot your brains.
Like you said, it was books at first, children told to go outside, then book readers centuries later told their children to stop watching TV and read a book. Now video games are the latest
Tiktok and ChatGPT
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It's so strange for me, having been born in 1988, to hear someone not know who this guy is, and this song.
I fully understand that it's been just about 30 years since this came out, and there are multiple generations of kids that will never have heard it that are fully grown adults now.
Its just that this song was not only massive, one that everyone knew, but it lived on way past its release date, it was played on radio, tv, used in films and tv shows (silicon valley is a recent one of note). The same band also had a meme based on the film "napolean dynamite" with the song canned heat, which the main character did a dance to that made it into games such as world of warcraft and fortnite.
The band is a part of pop culture, and despite it all, there are still places in the world where people dont know instantly what this picture is from and who that is.
I get it. It just boggles my mind how vast the world is. Even 10 years ago there were people living in the north west of england asking who the beatles were. (Beatles are from liverpool in the north west of england and liverpool is littered with beatles murals, staturs and that kind of shit) its insane that anyone could not know who they are.
But hey ho. Just thinking out loud.
I only knew the song years ago from one single source which was a DDR game on Xbox. Born the same year too lol. Until my 20s I thought it was some obscure song with cheap to buy licensing for the game.
In the last 5-10 years though I did see the music video for the first time and in the past couple years I have seen his name pop up several times at least.
That's about it though. I guess I never really listened to music until my teens and any car radio was 70-80s rock or even older pop music.
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People have always complained about how new tech warps people’s minds. Like back in the day there were people saying the same thing about books when the printing press was invented
What if very powerful people are literally using tech to warp people's minds on purpose?
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I don't know that I've ever actually registered any of the lyrics within this song, save for "vurchahwuhh insayynatyy!"
Same, I'm not a native speaker though ...
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Tiktok and ChatGPT
wrote last edited by [email protected]True, showing my age
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Overworked, or refusing to work at all. No one's having sex. Their economy is further collapsing, their population is converging to the point of a death spiral. No one can afford to have a family.
They still like tech in Tokyo and pump out anime, though.
That just sounds like South Korea, which AFAIK is doing worse than Japan on most quality-of-life metrics - they work longer hours, have even less sex, population is shrinking even faster and AFAIK the common Koreans aren't exactly getting rich off it, either.
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What if very powerful people are literally using tech to warp people's minds on purpose?
You mean like gasp writing subverting books?!
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That’s gaffe though.
In french too.
And "make gaffe" (fait gaffe!) means watch out! when you are potentially doing a "gaffe".
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You mean like gasp writing subverting books?!
I mean like literally controlling who people talk to and how often, and without most people being aware of how much they are being controlled.
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I mean like literally controlling who people talk to and how often, and without most people being aware of how much they are being controlled.
Information always comes from somewhere, that's why they banned books (& "ideas") and promoted "their ideas". You can't talk about democracy, equality, ... if it hasn't been presented to you as an Idea. Old as the world!
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People have always complained about how new tech warps people’s minds. Like back in the day there were people saying the same thing about books when the printing press was invented
wrote last edited by [email protected]People have always complained about how new tech warps people’s minds.
Because it does.
Ask a 20yo to do simple math without using a calculator.
The more "helping" technology we rely on, the stupider we become. -
Well we could start with a name...
It's a very common name. Jamiroquai.
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It's so strange for me, having been born in 1988, to hear someone not know who this guy is, and this song.
I fully understand that it's been just about 30 years since this came out, and there are multiple generations of kids that will never have heard it that are fully grown adults now.
Its just that this song was not only massive, one that everyone knew, but it lived on way past its release date, it was played on radio, tv, used in films and tv shows (silicon valley is a recent one of note). The same band also had a meme based on the film "napolean dynamite" with the song canned heat, which the main character did a dance to that made it into games such as world of warcraft and fortnite.
The band is a part of pop culture, and despite it all, there are still places in the world where people dont know instantly what this picture is from and who that is.
I get it. It just boggles my mind how vast the world is. Even 10 years ago there were people living in the north west of england asking who the beatles were. (Beatles are from liverpool in the north west of england and liverpool is littered with beatles murals, staturs and that kind of shit) its insane that anyone could not know who they are.
But hey ho. Just thinking out loud.
Even 10 years ago there were people living in the north west of england asking who the beatles were.
I once head 20yis on the bus saying how lucky that old guy Paul McCartney was for being in Rihanna video, like, it'll really be a boost for his career...
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Also, little kids are going around in Nirvana t-shirts, so they can can all the “before my time” natter.
little kids are going around in Nirvana t-shirts,
...and never listened to In Bloom.
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I miss the old internet. Usenet was magic.
Check out the gemini protocol and the small web.
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Overworked, or refusing to work at all. No one's having sex. Their economy is further collapsing, their population is converging to the point of a death spiral. No one can afford to have a family.
They still like tech in Tokyo and pump out anime, though.
Look to Japan to see what's the future like in the West a decade for now.
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I remember the that summer. Always wanted a Jamiroqoi hat
Always wanted a Jamiroqoi hat
You'll have to be way more specific than that.
