I'm tired of pretending tech makes things better.  I'm tired of kidding myself that all these apps, these chatbots, these "tools" are doing anything but dragging us into the mud and the shit and calling it progress.  I sat down at a cafe a few days ago, hungry and ready
  • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    For the past 20 years, tech has promised to make things more efficient while making almost everything more complicated and less meaningful. Innovation, for innovation’s sake, has eroded our craftsmanship, relationships, and ability to think critically.

    I feel this in my bones.

    • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      They’re conflating tech with tech bros.

      Tech can and does make lots of things that make our lives longer and better. Just not most of the consumer level shit that is constantly peddled by snake oil sellers. That tech is not meant to make your lives easier, it’s meant to get more money out of you without giving it up to the little people at service level.

      The problem isn’t the tech, it’s the people who are controlling the tech.

    • htrayl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      Tech has made things more efficient - the rewards of such are simply being funneled from the average person to the wealthy.