Comments | greygirlbeast: "Now the meddling sky and my snowy eye see a different night." (20 Vicodin)

greygirlbeast

"Now the meddling sky and my snowy eye see a different night." (20 Vicodin)

Feb 17, 2015 12:58

Every day it seems I have less and less patience with, and less and less interest in, the internet. It overwhelms. It's built to overwhelm. It distracts. It's built to distract. However my mind works, it isn't compatible with the internet as it exists today. And aside from issues of cognitive dissonance, I'm increasingly uncomfortable with various ( Read more... )

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martianmooncrab February 17 2015, 20:06:25 UTC

the world has been changed by the web in ways that I only begin dimly to comprehend.

I was reading a study how childrens posture has been affected by hand held devices because they are walking hunched over to fiddle with their phones/tablets/whatever and not walking upright.

1978 kiki60 February 18 2015, 14:56:42 UTC

There this book titled 1978. Apparently the world reached it's peak in nineteen seventy eight, and it's going down hill ever since. Who am to argue?

whiskeychick February 19 2015, 01:23:42 UTC

I was just having this conversation -- or thinking out loud, rather -- to my spouse. I blabber. He listens. Then he blabbers. I listen. Somewhere in there we find commonality. That commonality is that once again humanity has missed the boat on opportunity.

Raising children in this age is why most of my SF is dystopian, too.

barry_king February 19 2015, 12:47:11 UTC

Way back in 1990, I was taking a course at UGA on artificial intelligence. You were encouraged to come up with your own definition, and I slid towards the side that thinks thermostats are a form of AI ( ... )