[icclearly]

This country has gone absolutely stupid for “shiny new” tech that enslaves them.

I agree.

BUT...

Isn't that what they might have said about Alexnder Grahm Bell's new talk box in 1876? Or maybe about books and printed material when Gutenberg created the printing press in the 1400s?

[Openurmind]

Actually no they didn’t. There was always a benefit that outweighed the bad and there was always an option to use them or not.. But we reached that line and threshold many years ago now. Now the bad far far outweighs the good and there is very little choice but to be sucked into it. The masses are pulling everyone into it against their will.

Try to find a phone booth...

[cgbg]

Nowadays the “printing press” reports back to HQ on everything you read—for use for advertisers or criminals or governments (oh wait I repeated myself).

Imagine if the Gutenberg press created a miniature spy that reported to Rome when a book was created and read.

Then heretics could be tracked until the time was ripe to torture and kill them.