"The destroyer of our species won鈥檛 necessarily come in a rain of fire, an apocalyptic plague, or an armada of drones descending on us from the sky. It may be something we excitedly pay $1000 for every three or four years."
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/are-you-finally-ready-to-admit-its
Many users criticized Noah Smith's defense of smartphones, claiming the devices make people less capable of independent learning and enable elite opinion control.
"I suspect that a lot of people simply don鈥檛 want it to be the phones. We want the Spirit of 2007 back. We want technology to feel unambiguously good again. We want to believe in Saint Steve Jobs, the last of the American techno-heroes."
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/are-you-finally-ready-to-admit-its
@Noahpinion The phone is a neutral, inanimate device. Do you mean the content on the phones? That's us. The phone is the delivery system. So, no, it's not the phone. What is it about us that's the problem, that hasn't been a part of being human since we existed.?
@Noahpinion This isn't a criticism of you, specifically, but I am getting tired of every problem being framed in apocalyptic terms.
The decline in fertility rates is a serious issue but I am confident that it will not be the end of our species.
@Noahpinion Conan O鈥橞rien鈥檚 fake iPhone ad from Late Night aired in January 2007, just days after Jobs unveiled the phone (six months before it even shipped
https://vimeo.com/37208137
@Noahpinion I think smartphones should be limited to four features: an ai q&a chat, a navigation app, whatsapp, and a bank/investing app.
@Noahpinion smartphones make people dumb they stopped learning how to do anything, because there's always this device they can ask what to do, where to go, what to think about something, what to listen to/watch...
@Noahpinion tech addiction hits a little too close
@Noahpinion Elites could controll public opinions easier. Is this the reason why you technocrats of the obama era want back to that time?
@Noahpinion You are 40 and childless.
@Noahpinion It is easier to blame our own lack of discipline or the modern content landscape than to accept that the very devices we consider extensions of ourselves were engineered to undermine the human capacity for deep, independent thought.
@Noahpinion How many kids do you have?
@PrimalHex @Noahpinion The thesis is that people have gotten comfortable being alone all the time, and that this is facilitated primarily by smartphones and social media.
@Noahpinion Tdch is good but phones created a lot of mess for the better and for worse
"The destroyer of our species won鈥檛 necessarily come in a rain of fire, an apocalyptic plague, or an armada of drones descending on us from the sky. It may be something we excitedly pay $1000 for every three or four years."
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/are-you-finally-ready-to-admit-its