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Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've just been reading about how in the future, AI will allow us to speak with animals, and people will be able to communicate telepathically and live in their own VR worlds. (etc., etc.)

Man, this isn't a world I want to live in. I'm so tired of the constant paradigm shifting that you have to put your brain through with each innovation. I wish technology just stayed frozen in the 1980s – there would be so much less uncertainty in my life and I could just focus on being a human.

Innovation keeps being forced on you and I just feel tired. >!And I'm only just in my 20s!< Is this ok? Is this valid? When resisting it is a loser's game...

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

People getting old in this thread. Next thing you know, you'll be yelling at kids on your front lawn. 😁

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Did I become an old man that yells at clouds?

https://youtu.be/g_QCYPRu8pY?t=118

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What lawn?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

"you kids stay away from my dirt crop!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

The one inside our heads 😁

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I’m way ahead of ya.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I realized I was old when I paid a couple kids to shovel my sidewalk lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Wisdom with age and all that ;)