I'm tired of pretending tech makes things better.  I'm tired of kidding myself that all these apps, these chatbots, these "tools" are doing anything but dragging us into the mud and the shit and calling it progress.  I sat down at a cafe a few days ago, hungry and ready
  • Xed@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    10 hours ago

    Technology absolutely helps advance science and helps the disabled, It’s greedy fucks that destroyed good tech

    • comfydecal@infosec.pubEnglish
      3·
      7 hours ago

      Yeah I think blanket statements either way are misguided. Some tech does help the disabled, other tech makes their lives much more difficult. It’s like any other tool, when it’s used at scale by something aiming for optimizing profit it will have terrible side effects

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        sure, some tech makes life more difficult, but it’d be weird to require it’s use, so you’re either going to go through a bad government structure (different problem) or choose to use bad products for some reason.

        I guess the secret third answer is working somewhere that requires you to use shitty tech, but like, same problem as no 1.

        I find the bigger problem to be implementation and support, shit like QR codes and phone based payment taking over things like paper, and card based payment, that’s objectively worse. Though both QR codes and phone based payment are in isolation, explicitly good and beneficial things.