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[quote=Anonymous]I really think the only way out of this is to get rid of smartphones, tablets, smartwatches completely.  And social media.  I think historians will conclude that the late 90s, early 2000s was probably the height of civilization. We had the internet and it was actually useful and a net positive for individuals and society because of how much knowledge it could gather and disseminate.  But everything after that point has been a net negative.  Whatever productivity gains there has been has been washed out by needless complexities and inefficiencies (ex people making a gazillion changes in word documents that are totally unnecessary that they would not have bothered to make when they had to typewrite it).

And the negatives have been tremendous.  Kids who never learned to do basic things such as use their own brains.  Adults who have lost the ability to focus and maintain relationships.  Echo chambers that have left our country and the world more polarized than ever.  Americans who are more lonely and more angry than ever.  People think we can just have AI do the mundane things of life so we humans can focus on the "big" problems, but they don't realize that most of human existence is lived in those mundane things, and it's those things that actually give life meaning, not the "big" problems.  And if we don't do the mundane things, we are incapable of doing anything "big" anyways. [/quote]

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