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

My choice would be to freeze technology at about 1985. We had everything we really needed by then.

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Google maps and google earth are about the only piece of technology I would truly miss if we warped back 20-25 years (other than all things medical).

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No joke. Don’t care to go back to the physical atlas/maps or trying to get Mapquest to print out the route right.

As one of the responders said I would miss Youtube but absolutely. How many lives have been destroyed because of social media? I don’t think narcissism would be nearly as bad if the technology held from the 90s. Introversion has certainly been on the rise since then. Concerts were so much better back then as people were actually participating/watching and not filming…
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Yes, but I fear the social costs will be grave.

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Compuserve

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Holy 90s obscure bowl game sponsor batman

Just revert back to 2002, permanently. Decent variety of internet pron, cellphones had call and text, social media was barely a thing, internet had dial-up..basically revert back to pre-social media and smart phones

Absolutely.

As another poster said, Google maps would prob be the biggest loss but 99% of other shite is a drain on society.

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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.

the end is nigh