I do, but every time I come here I just cannot think of something to post about and all the threads don't interest me, too much shit about some random, inconsequential news happening for me to give a shit.
So here's a set of questions for a thread:
I: What do you guys think the future of consumer electronic technology will do to our culture?
II: Would you let your children indulge in some form of "electronic babysitting", i.e. tablet, phone, computer, whatever?
I recently got rid of my smart phone to go back to using a flip phone because I found my self staring at the mother fucker all day every day and felt like I got a kind of high from using it. I would always have some inquiry that I wanted to check on or had some other random pay off to satisfy by using it, be it checking facebook, instagram, facefuck dot com, whatever.
To a large degree I feel like it has worked. I don't check my phone nearly as much when I'm out and the compulsions I used to have have somewhat dissuaded, which I am happy about. I find ultimately that people don't spend the huge amounts of money used to develop these phones and applications for no reason, they're very good at capitalizing what kind of compulsory habits humans have and using data to make them more and more effective as time goes by.
Ultimately I believe that technology will likely go into an even more immersive set of interactions, where instead of being glued to checking your phone you'll be able to more or less sync your actual consciousness into the devices/platforms/whatever; which is even more horrifying, to me anyway.
Hell, I have a third question now that I've done some writing here:
III. Do you think there will be a breaking point where we acknowledge too much immersion and take a step back from this kind of technology, or is it forever going to progress forward?
This subject has been on the forefront of my mind for a while now for a few reasons, the first is that I have seen how the technology warps most interactions in my life, from dealing with coworkers, friends, family, etc. and second, I have found out that I will be having a child and I can't help but think about the kind of upbringing he or she (hopefully he) will have versus my own. Gone are the days where a child will know what it's like to exist without being linked to a massive, global network of people and information. I personally will try and keep my child away from those kinds of things because it scares the living shit out of me that he or she will literally never know any different than to have the ability to pull out a phone, watch, whatever the Hell we have and be linked in to such a huge mass.
Eh.
This post was edited by Kamahl16 on Feb 13 2017 11:07pm