“I used to love technology. I still think it is awesome, but I also think it is on the cusp of utterly destroying civilization.”
I’m the same way. I used to read about 8 tech blogs a day 10 years ago to keep up with all the cool stuff being developed, now I look at about two, and none of the news is about anything other than stale releases of the same phones and tablets or the latest privacy breach and state intrusion into tech.
It feels like the tech companies have all stopped making nifty consumer gadgets and now are all building a digital cage around us. Just going into Best Buy no longer instills the wonder it once it. Everything is over-connected and not inspiring. Just crap to lock you in.....to something.
Makes me glad I bought a Zune off eBay just to have one gadget from the good old days when everything wasn’t watching you or learning from you.
Just curious - what could you wander into Best Buy and see that would re-instill that sense of wonder and awe?
We have so many fancy tech goodies available to us these days, it’s easy to forget how good we have it. Compared to the old days of dial phones, 8 tracks and 3 VHF channels on the tube TV.
Is there anything left that we could want that isn’t dangled before our greedy eyes?
I wonder.
(At the same time as I’m holding out for that full size holo-deck, Deanna Troi model...)
Oh, and if you do think of whatever it might be, invent it, and you can be the next tech billionaire.
My escape is to enter a Christian sanctuary where ancient hymns are sung with those around me, and we hear a sermon. One man speaking for 10 or 15 or 20 minutes without interruption. Not just any man, but a man whose life is dedicated to studying the Sacred Scriptures and who has been called to speak and to preach in that particular sanctuary, with souls under his care. We kneel. We bow. No way to deep fake it. I am convinced the “fulness of time” referenced bt St. Paul was intentionally bereft of audio and video recording.
I still use my old T-Mobile Fender MyTouch phone as a music player. With winamp. :)