I always imagined travelling back in time 100 years and trying to explain our tech.
-“We have personal communicators available at all times, that we can use to instantly communicate with anyone on Earth.”
-“Wow! But I guess language barriers make it impossible?”
-'No, actually. A surprising amount of people in the world understand English. Also, we have instant translators in our communicators. I could contact someone in China right now and have a conversation about anything."
-“Incredible!! What sort of topics do you talk to them about?”
-“…I don’t. It’s kinda impolite to just start talking to strangers. I mostly talk to old friends from school. And my family.”
Yeah it worked for the first part of internet history. You talked to people from all over the world.
Now people use the internet like a carnival freak show exhibition. They don’t talk to others. They scroll to gawk at what oddities and tap the glass and jeer at the inhuman thing. Social media is designed this way.
I always imagined travelling back in time 100 years and trying to explain our tech.
-“We have personal communicators available at all times, that we can use to instantly communicate with anyone on Earth.”
-“Wow! But I guess language barriers make it impossible?”
-'No, actually. A surprising amount of people in the world understand English. Also, we have instant translators in our communicators. I could contact someone in China right now and have a conversation about anything."
-“Incredible!! What sort of topics do you talk to them about?”
-“…I don’t. It’s kinda impolite to just start talking to strangers. I mostly talk to old friends from school. And my family.”
We returned to greek origin. Wanna talk with randoms? Go to the forum…
Yeah it worked for the first part of internet history. You talked to people from all over the world.
Now people use the internet like a carnival freak show exhibition. They don’t talk to others. They scroll to gawk at what oddities and tap the glass and jeer at the inhuman thing. Social media is designed this way.