Tech Fade - Old tech is simply... Forgotten. People rely on corporate services to substitute.

[Kalsarikännit]

For me learning how things work is usually a byproduct of needing to fix something so I can save money. Maybe the declining economy will motivate people to learn more about maintaining and repairing their stuff to save money, but I am not optimistic about this. I think most people would probably get creative with carrying more debt or just accept a downgrade in quality of life instead.

What’s likely to happen is people will just nigger-rig their stuff into complete inoperability, like how stuff works in Africa.

 

[Pissmaster]

Examples?

Here's an ad for PlayStation games: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/video-game-industry-struggles-to-shake-sexist-attitudes.108757/

Here's an ad for Disney theme parks: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/will-d...ncers-after-viral-contraband-incident.148332/

Here's a post of mine where I break down how just about everything related to Starbucks posted on A&N is an ad, and how they have a very distinct pattern (while implying they hire a whole lot of racists, lmao): https://kiwifarms.st/threads/starbu...ns-are-heated-hate-that.165399/#post-16330556

And here's some of the most obvious propaganda targeted at insecure midwits: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/smart-people-first-in-line-for-covid-19-vaccines-study-suggests.171417/

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Pretty sure this is something that already being claimed for the last 50 years in regards to just about every piece of technology. People prefer ease and reliability so important actions are obscufated by an interface. There isn't anything that can be done since the benefit of those actions results in faster and simpler development cycles and attracts customers.

In the end our entire tech based civilization is a massive jenga tower that we just hope really badly that if something gets taken out it will have an alternative that prevents the whole tower from collapsing.

 

[Drain Todger]

Just wait until Null falls down the managerialism and algorithmic governance rabbit hole. All of this is completely by design. The goal is to produce future generations of helpless Tech-Eloi who have absolutely no agency or any comprehension whatsoever of how anything works. They just wander around with futuristic implants that have replaced smartphones, having their habits and behaviors and internal states tracked by AI constantly, mindlessly consooming and being policed by machines. Tech will become like magic nanotech fairy dust, and it will be ubiquitous, constantly analyzing people's preferences, manipulating their brains, calming aggression, satisfying needs before people even realize they have them, and so on. You will imagine a cupcake, and your implants will read your brainwaves, and a robot will wheel up to you with a 3D printer and print a cupcake out of soy grease and be like "Your cupcake, sire", without you ever having vocalized the idea of having one. Think of the Rogue Servitors in Stellaris, or Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. It'll be something like that.

 

[Coolio55]

People like to belittle Zoomers for being useless with computers but I'm shocked at the amount of boomers at my job that don't understand the start menu.

 

[The Ugly One]

Don't get me started on how many women these days don't know how to use a spinning wheel.

 

[Hard Toothbrush]

Tech fade? People in general have forgotten how to do fucking arithmetic, not just teens but actual middle-aged adults.
I teach ESL and as part of practicing numbers I give my students very simple addition and subtraction problems, stuff like "what's 17+40" to practice the difference in pronunciation between numbers like 15 and 50.
The first time I've done that I was absolutely shocked how many people needed more than 2 seconds to come up with an answer. At first I thought "oh they're just having trouble with numbers in English" so after waiting 10 painfully long seconds I asked them the same question in my native language and they STILL couldn't answer.
It's come to the point that I'm convinced my 72-year old mother is probably as competent with computers as an average zoomer nowadays, just by the fact that she can read those error messages that occasionally pop up and actually comprehend them.

 

[Ewan McGregor]

The KF incident last weekend made me think how the Internet is a big pile of nothing.

People believe that this is some sort of Library of Alexandria where knowledge will be stored forever yet it's not true.

Not a lot of people is aware that pretty much anything prior to 2010 and many things prior to 2016, for some reason, has been scrubbed out of the internet. A lot of stuff probably is better forgotten but lost of interesting content has been lost forever.

New generations literally aren't able to ever imagine what the internet was that. A single sample of a geocities website with shitty GIFs and Comic Sans or some old 4chan memes don't even scratch the surface of what the overall internet experience was in 2006.

 

[Anonitolia]

People like to belittle Zoomers for being useless with computers but I'm shocked at the amount of boomers at my job that don't understand the start menu.

I think that’s mostly because people expect zoomers to have much more experience due to being the third generation with the tech and being practically immersed in it from birth.

Unfortunately, now that Alpha exists, I think we can safely say that giving kids tech from a very young age provides them with negative advantage in actually operating the stuff.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

I think that’s mostly because people expect zoomers to have much more experience due to being the third generation with the tech and being practically immersed in it from birth.

Unfortunately, now that Alpha exists, I think we can safely say that giving kids tech from a very young age provides them with negative advantage in actually operating the stuff.

Being exposed to technology and advanced electronics early on can be advantageous when done in right amounts, but we all know that is certainly not being done with the youth now. I remember around the mid 2000s when the first iphone came out there was a bit of a deal made about children's books that attempted to teach kids basics of computer programming by introducing concepts like classes and variables. Not sure that had much impact now.

 

[DavidS877]

Being exposed to technology and advanced electronics early on can be advantageous when done in right amounts, but we all know that is certainly not being done with the youth now. I remember around the mid 2000s when the first iphone came out there was a bit of a deal made about children's books that attempted to teach kids basics of computer programming by introducing concepts like classes and variables. Not sure that had much impact now.

This was my bedtime reading growing up:

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Another symptom of tech fade or competence crisis is more tech entrepreneurs being scammers, oblivious to limits of nature, or both.

(like as seen in the "BUSTED" YT videos done by Thunderf00t that expose various inventions as not doable)

 

[BootlegPopeye]

The KF incident last weekend made me think how the Internet is a big pile of nothing.

People believe that this is some sort of Library of Alexandria where knowledge will be stored forever yet it's not true.

Not a lot of people is aware that pretty much anything prior to 2010 and many things prior to 2016, for some reason, has been scrubbed out of the internet. A lot of stuff probably is better forgotten but lost of interesting content has been lost forever.

Similarly, I used to have higher hope (lol) for the intrawebs until it seemed like something truly useful (such as book scanning) went into a steep decline. Google seemingly abandoned most of it around 2014 or so, and much of what they did scanned has since been paywalled (regardless of copyright status) or made unavailable. Now it's basically only internet archive doing it, with all the problems we have with them as an organization based on trust factor (see: censorship of the farms + Taylor Lorenz being able to bury her past by simply asking her uncle).

 

[Ewan McGregor]

This was my bedtime reading growing up:
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Oh, you share childhood literary interests with Chris-chan!

 

[ToroidalBoat]

this is some sort of Library of Alexandria where knowledge will be stored forever

And yet that Great Library was burned down. By religious fanatics.

And in Current Year, a new cult is a threat to the internet: SJWs.

 

[FailurePersonifiedV2]

This was my bedtime reading growing up:
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That’s some good shit right there.
Printed a hardcover for myself since I love the C64 but I didn’t want to destroy the original (well loved and used already, but I can’t throw it around)

 

[Pee Cola]

This was my bedtime reading growing up:
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This was mine.

 

[teriyakiburns]

And yet that Great Library was burned down. By religious fanatics.

It was first burned down by the Romans under Julius (accidentally) and then declined over the subsequent centuries, due to lack of support and funding from the Roman state. By the time any religious fanatics got to it, there was very little left to burn.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

By the time any religious fanatics got to it, there was very little left to burn.

What's happening to the internet still kind of mirrors the history of the library. A combo of politics, big business, and fanaticism from activists is trying to turn the 'net from "The Wild West" to a service that's sterilized, corporate, sanitized, and censored...

 

[The Ugly One]

This was mine.

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I like the accurate drawing of the reader's future romantic prospects.