"The scary part is that all this technology that is integrated kinda just promotes more consumerism. Advertising and marketing are a huge point to this technology. It's scary to think that we just give children ( not just teenagers) access to the internet."
"The part you don't realize is that we are in a dystopia. You are optimistic thinking that we are "building it". It will exist somewhere down the line, but it's not yet present."
Big yes to both of these. I've come to the conclusion that within the current economic and political paradigm, namely capitalism in its current form at least, this exponential tech explosion can only lead to more consumerism, more control and manipulation.
My conclusion is that if we want this level of technology we need radically more democracy and a more egalitarian economic system with far far less inequality. Embedded in our current system, I see only a dystopia arising (or continuing to evolve).
"The part you don't realize is that we are in a dystopia. You are optimistic thinking that we are "building it". It will exist somewhere down the line, but it's not yet present."
Big yes to both of these. I've come to the conclusion that within the current economic and political paradigm, namely capitalism in its current form at least, this exponential tech explosion can only lead to more consumerism, more control and manipulation.
My conclusion is that if we want this level of technology we need radically more democracy and a more egalitarian economic system with far far less inequality. Embedded in our current system, I see only a dystopia arising (or continuing to evolve).