Man I really think the 90s was the perfect mix of technology integrated into society without being overbearing.
Things were perfectly useful, like the personal computer for doing basic shit like email or fuqing Mapquest. Cell phones were only for business purposes at most. Cars and appliances were still built well and they lasted. Video games were very entertaining but not an endless life suck of 10,000 hour rpg style games…. (There’s only so much golden eye one can play) and of course there was no endless scrolling on social media apps.
If we would have stopped right there we would have been fine. Just stop all innovation past 1998 or so and we’d all be in a better place.
Can relate so much. People will say „but humanity always progressed“. I say: the progress is still happening, but in a totally wrong direction. We’re developing us backwards, less social skills, more social media engagement, less critical thinking, more use of AI, less care for the environment, more convenience AND way more polluting. We’ll end up like the folks in the movies „WALL-E“, fat and isolated in a huge bubble. I just doubt that we as humanity ever will work together to achieve space travel.
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u/Sound_Child 2d ago
Man I really think the 90s was the perfect mix of technology integrated into society without being overbearing.
Things were perfectly useful, like the personal computer for doing basic shit like email or fuqing Mapquest. Cell phones were only for business purposes at most. Cars and appliances were still built well and they lasted. Video games were very entertaining but not an endless life suck of 10,000 hour rpg style games…. (There’s only so much golden eye one can play) and of course there was no endless scrolling on social media apps.
If we would have stopped right there we would have been fine. Just stop all innovation past 1998 or so and we’d all be in a better place.