I think this is an important topic that doesn't get discussed all that much. How does technology make us more lonely and isolated? How can we use technology to make us less lonely?
My personal experience: I've been highly motivated the past couple years, and spend a lot of my free time learning about science, technology, and linguistics. But every piece of knowledge I acquire makes me feel more isolated, because I have no one to share it with. The people I know IRL mostly only exist on either end of the spectrum: (1) 100% turbo-autist neckbeards, or (2) 100% turbo-normie who couldn't give a shit. I want to meet other people like me who have autistic interests but are also capable of being down-to-earth and socially aware. Every piece of knowledge I gain isolates me further because I can only discuss it with you neckbeards or on r*ddit. I am slowly losing it.
>How does technology make us more lonely and isolated? Since we can use technology to distill the logic components from an animal form of communication making sounds and breathing each others smells, we become desensitized to the idea of others.
>How can we use technology to make us less lonely? We can't. There is always a "friction" when casting reality into a technological form, which saps energy and introduces entropy. Even efforts with the outright intend of reducing loneliness, like some AR/VR system that will bring people together virtually, will result in poorer real-world experiences.
Tech is NOT good. We're in it because we're good at it, but we might as well be working to make cigarettes more addictive or alcoholic drinks more devastating to the brain.
Parker Ward
>muh we wuz doomers cringe thread
Matthew Powell
tech is like a suit of armour. it separates you from the world
Brandon Butler
If I was a doomer I wouldn't be bothering trying to find a way out
Nathaniel Sullivan
The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip. The body count climbs through a series of globewars. Emergent Planetary Commercium trashes the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic Continental System, the Second and Third Reich, and the Soviet International, cranking-up world disorder through compressing phases. Deregulation and the state arms-race each other into cyberspace. By the time soft-engineering slithers out of its box into yours, human security is lurching into crisis. Cloning, lateral genodata transfer, transversal replication, and cyberotics, flood in amongst a relapse onto bacterial sex. Neo-China arrives from the future. Hypersynthetic drugs click into digital voodoo. Retro-disease. Nanospasm. Beyond the Judgement of God. Meltdown: planetary china-syndrome, dissolution of the biosphere into the technosphere, terminal speculative bubble crisis, ultravirus, and revolution stripped of all christian-socialist eschatology (down to its burn-core of crashed security). It is poised to eat your TV, infect your bank account, and hack xenodata from your mitochondria. Converging upon terrestrial meltdown singularity, phase-out culture accelerates through its digitech-heated adaptive landscape, passing through compression thresholds normed to an intensive logistic curve: 1500, 1756, 1884, 1948, 1980, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2011 … Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.
Tyler Wood
"tech" is not a fucking autonomous entity, it doesn't make someone lonely. Forced loneliness through economic isolation is a sign of a very sick society model. Lonely minds in the past made themselves messengers of the sun, the storm or whatever mistery at that time, and were somewhat respected. Nowadays, if you are lonely, there is a chance that nobody cares, thus leading you to your old friend named sadness.
Caleb Johnson
>"tech" is not a fucking autonomous entity Imagine being this naive.
Tyler Morgan
Tech makes you lonely. We didn't evolve to cope with it.
Colton Thompson
this. technology was a mistake. kazcynski was right about everything.
