More and more time spent in worlds that do not necessarily tack to the laws of our nature... will do what exactly to us long term? Your guess is as good as mine.
Roland, As always, you hit the nail smack on its head. As Cory Doctorow called it, Big Tech has willfully - for its purposes - enshitificated, the digital universe. It began with an approach to social life as counter-cultural, and has now ended up with billionaires and wanna be trillionaires (Musk, anybody?) creating a universe that serves their megalomaniacal wants and desires to the distress and "shitification" of any and all users. But Luddites at the beginning of Industrialization understood the factories that replaced their skills in much the same way.
Relatedly, do we in fact understand how the digital world is constructed any more than we (typically) understand how our bodies, our automobiles, our heating and cooling systems work? Heck! Do we even understand how a cup of coffee or a shot of whisky (or even whiskey) ends up in our hands? Do we even understand where money comes from? I mean REALLY understand?
It's not just the digital universe that is complex. Our material reality is every bit as complicated: it takes thousands and thousands of people to grow, harvest, ferment, transport, (by road and ship), to build those trucks, and boats, to maintain and repair them, to move them (and to train the drivers and merchant marines) etc etc etc. Our world is truly global.
Roland, As always, you hit the nail smack on its head. As Cory Doctorow called it, Big Tech has willfully - for its purposes - enshitificated, the digital universe. It began with an approach to social life as counter-cultural, and has now ended up with billionaires and wanna be trillionaires (Musk, anybody?) creating a universe that serves their megalomaniacal wants and desires to the distress and "shitification" of any and all users. But Luddites at the beginning of Industrialization understood the factories that replaced their skills in much the same way.
Relatedly, do we in fact understand how the digital world is constructed any more than we (typically) understand how our bodies, our automobiles, our heating and cooling systems work? Heck! Do we even understand how a cup of coffee or a shot of whisky (or even whiskey) ends up in our hands? Do we even understand where money comes from? I mean REALLY understand?
I am sure I don’t! And yet, I won’t refuse the offered cup of joe or shot of whiskey no matter where it comes from. ❤️
It's not just the digital universe that is complex. Our material reality is every bit as complicated: it takes thousands and thousands of people to grow, harvest, ferment, transport, (by road and ship), to build those trucks, and boats, to maintain and repair them, to move them (and to train the drivers and merchant marines) etc etc etc. Our world is truly global.