In this world, what has value when everything is obsolete in six months or less? Technology didn’t elevate us to higher levels, it became our master and turned us into “Meat-Puppets”. I guarantee you that all too soon technology will make that obsolete as well. It’s not that far in the future that McDonalds will be almost completely automated. Then what will you do for a living? Even better, who will buy the products when you can’t gain employment anymore?
A thoughtful, honest piece which resonates but I can't bring myself to sympathise over-much.
What'd'you think?
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
I was struck by the very insular 'American-ness' of the piece - so many people are so cut off from reality that these articles are becoming more and more common. They be like, "Hey, look what I discovered! There are other ways of living!"
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
I don't think it's just the Yanks, I think it's the well-(ish)-off that are to blame. They're every bit as bad here, for example. Though it might be different in Ireland.
Helluva book. The sequel, "The Third Wave", was equally good and, if anything, a more accurate predictor of where we currently find ourselves.
It has been over forty years sense I read it but if I remember correctly we should have all eaten our own young by now due to the stress of ever accelerating change. So it was a well articulated idea that just happened to be wrong.
Helluva book. The sequel, "The Third Wave", was equally good and, if anything, a more accurate predictor of where we currently find ourselves.
It has been over forty years sense I read it but if I remember correctly we should have all eaten our own young by now due to the stress of ever accelerating change. So it was a well articulated idea that just happened to be wrong.
