Ah but new tech always has been ruining us
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LillyPip@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Reminder that Socrates was said to have hated books because they corrupted the youth, weakening students’ faculties by removing the need to memorise information.
Every single generation since records have existed thought the new tech was ruining us.
Now get off my fucking lawn.
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Those damn kids and their newfangled pointy rocks. Back in my day, if you needed your rock to do more damage, you just got a bigger one!
echodot@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
We also have a lot more knowledge than we used to. Socrates didn’t have to remember about molecular metabolization pathways or the energy transition of a turbium atom or what size of medium coffee is at Starbucks.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Could socrates predict invention of encyclopedia?
Ancient philosphy vs some madlad going “Ah yes today I will write down EVERYTHING.”
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 17 hours ago
Wait did Socrates really say that?
God he’d absolutely hate me. I can’t memorize anything, but I can seemingly learn everything
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Except this is young fashionable people whinging about old people have the ringer setting on…
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
While the concert and wedding are events where you should turn off your ringer, it’s certainly true that phones can ring at inconvenient times. A big enough problem to outweigh the benefit of being able to check in, find people, call for help, etc. from nearly anywhere? Absolutely not, but it’s still a pretty accurate prediction.
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Sure but AI will wreck us worse than all of them.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 18 hours ago
Now, let’s talk about meetings.
Τώρα, ας μιλήσουμε για τις συναντήσεις.
fading_person@lemmy.zip 15 minutes ago
I don’t think this is the point of the comic, but rather make some humorous speculation of a tech future.