Technology

If this was asked in China, I bet nobody would seriously say "I wanna live in the past"

(at least not in the context of traveling back to the 1950s or something like that...)

I had an idea for a sci-fi setting where criminals are held in stasis like Demolition Man or Minority Report except the point isn’t to keep them away from society or rehabilitate them. It’s to rob them of their time in the present assuming that things are only going to bet worse.

If you go back a few decades, you would see how companies would produce technological innovations with the mindset of, "If we design the best, most useful device possible, customers will come to us and buy our product".

Today, that has flipped into a mindset of, "We will create this technology, force users into adoption, and exploit them as hard as possible once we have them under our control."

The technology has become a means to control users, not to enable them.

At least it's good to see that people are catching on though.

I always talk about how life and trends are just a pendulum, And how it swings, and that I have this hope for the generation(s) after me swinging the pendulum in the other direction. I'm born in '87. We embraced technology to the fullest. And now, unfortunately, technology has been ruined, in the fashion of things gaining popularity going to shit. Way she goes.

I have this idea that the pendulum will come back to a point where kids want to separate themselves from the lens of the internet, where you'll be chastised for using your phone. And perhaps this is just some strange (anti?)dystopian story in the making, but a tale as old as time is kids being like "That's not cool, fuck that shit." I'm just hopeful that "that shit" is tiktok and its ilk.

Is this anything new at all?

Even back in the day, you had people wanting to live in the recent past, because the past usually gets romanticised.

So people in the 1960s might have a rosy view of the turn of the century, and want to go back to the 1930 days of art deco and balls, or those today, that might want to return what they believe to be glory days of 1960. Even if it isn't actually realistic to how you might live in the past. The average citizen in 1930 was not attending balls at a swanky music lounge.

Give it a few decades, we might also have people from 2050 pining for the 2020s, believing it to be just like the advertisements, where we all live in the penthouse level of skyscrapers, overlooking a vast cityscape.

I think it’s just normal for new generations to revive cultural elements of past eras with a kind of nostalgia, even though they weren’t really present for them. For millennials, it was the 80s and even the early to mid 20th century.

Gen-Z is thinks the 90s were cool and is bringing back a bit of that.

Discomfort with new modem technology shapes frustration as no modern terminal application has ZModem support.

mmmm. should they be into this? https://youtu.be/8mSIX8G_0Mk?list=RD8mSIX8G_0Mk would that be ironic?

Read the article, just a bunch of morons who have zero self control.

Isaacs specifically pointed to the 1990s as a time with “a lack of phones, more personal experience, but also still some of the ease of modern technology.”

Just this alone shows they have no idea what the 90s were like.

"Waaah my phone does too much, I just want an iPod!"

Delete social media, download Spotify and boom, your phone is an iPod again. Or turn off all notifications on your phone and buy one of those iPod clones.

"Gen Z" acting like the world was better before social media but they have no idea how to function without social media. If they went in the theoretical time machine back to the 90s they'd have a mental breakdown trying to find their way to the local McDonald's.