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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
In my opinion it’s the computer

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They were supposed to make work easier, do the mundane tasks. Instead workloads have increased.

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Originally posted by Ripley:

worst - the pill (a double edged sword)

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
In my opinion it’s the computer

I believe that the promises made haven’t materialized for most people

They were supposed to make work easier, do the mundane tasks. Instead workloads have increased.

Computers allow us to communicate more easily than writing letters and cards. But now we have been blessed with spam emails, identity theft, government snooping and surveillance. Scammers, crooks, miscellaneous thieves, censorship and polarization of society are all the benefits we have reaped from computers.

A simpler life was a better life.

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“Because it means the end of innovation,” Malcolm said. “This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. Every biologist knows that small groups in isolation evolve fastest. You put a thousand birds on an ocean island and they’ll evolve very fast. You put ten thousand on a big continent, and their evolution slows down. Now, for our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. And everybody on earth knows that innovation only occurs in small groups. Put three people on a committee and they may get something done. Ten people, and it gets harder. Thirty people, and nothing happens. Thirty million, it becomes impossible. That’s the effect of mass media—it keeps anything from happening. Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same. Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there’s a McDonald’s on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. Regional differences vanish. All differences vanish. In a mass-media world, there’s less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity—our most necessary resource? That’s disappearing faster than trees. But we haven’t figured that out, so now we’re planning to put five billion people together in cyberspace. And it’ll freeze the entire species. Everything will stop dead in its tracks. Everyone will think the same thing at the same time. Global uniformity."