re: Would the world a better place if we were reset to early 90s tech?

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I seriously like your optimism. Could you expound on how, precisely, we are going to get that genie back in the bottle?

I really hope you have some good ideas how to do it, because I haven't heard any so far.

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I’m way late coming back to this, but it’s going to have to be people deciding at the individual level to interface directly with people and the world more often. Main thing is limiting social media exposure because that more than anything colors the way people perceive the world nowadays (in mostly a negative way).

So, no I don’t have a “global solution” that makes the world better, but we’re social creatures and if enough people do things like this, we will gather positive momentum.

We’ve seen this happen recently btw, there was a thread a little while ago about a “trend” where younger people were consciously choosing to not have headphones in when they go for walks.

As small as that sounds and as much ridicule that it got, it’s indicative of younger people, who were literally born into a digital landscape and know nothing else, realizing that being connected all the time isn’t good. And they took action to change that. Again, small thing but it’s a series of small things that move individuals and society at large in the right direction.