The internet is subtly training you for a 'own nothing and be happy mindset' by giving you mountains of data / media without requiring the discipline, or skills, of curation.
For millennials (and beyond) there is no need to methodically keep track of a music cd, movie or have a personal library of media as spotify/youtube/netflix performs all these actions. The skills, or discipline, of carefully maintaining something, tracking it, curating it is lost as there is no need in an age where everything is seamlessly performed for you. There is no need to remember the minute details of media, events or speeches as search engines fill in the need to remember and cultivate a history.
The downside to this goes beyond the perpetual service economy in which the millennial owns nothing; but extends to the basic ability to maintain and service their possessions. To a large degree, this also impacts their ability to think and plan as the need to maintain a database, or library is merely another skill left along the wayside as the internet becomes more and more ingrained. The need to 'remember' is also greatly reduced as google fills in the gap and performs the spell check on words that aren't quite right.
In all, this creates a 'scattered slave existence' where no on remembers the occurrences beyond last week as they haven't developed the skills, or thinking practices to maintain long term discipline. The value off having a CD, or carefully curated collection is greatly diminished as it's lost in the sea off media that is easily accessible without any skillset.
Great post, I couldn't agree more.
Smartphones, tablets etc are turning people brains into Jell-O tik-tok brains.
When the internet goes down those jello brains will pop.
On one hand I pity them because that will be a massive shock and a lot of the younger people are just imitating their millennial parents and trying to survive in the social media dominated young people social world. On the other hand, once the addiction is broken (if it is), they will probably experience a life free of tech addiction for the first time ever, which I'd imagine will feel orgasmic
Probably die in the switch over. They know zero about providing for themselves beyond ordering a 12 dollar Doordash ice coffee that's left outside the door until the ice has melted.
Lol
notice how the basic function of a consumer PC went from running programs on your computer, to accessing things through a web browser (or an app that is basically a web browser tailored to browse one website). with modern computing, it literally does not matter if you have a mac, pc, or Android as long as it can run a modern web browser. the only thing left where the PC truly matters is either gaming or computationally intensive things like scientific simulations.
even in the case of gaming, they've been pushing for at least a decade now to make cloud gaming a thing.
Would you rather have it that in order to post that comment you would have had to buy a certain brand of computer?
Communication protocols have always been hardware neutral. Using BBSs on a dial up modem was not restricted to Amigas or whatever.
Imagine a world where "The Microsoft Network" became the dominant "online" space and you had to pay MS to access it.
Part of the phenomena you are describing is called commoditising your complement where you neutralise the USP of your indirect competition - cream producers want strawberries free so you afford more cream.
Software writers don't want software tied to a particular manufacturer, they want as many potential customers as possible.
you miss the point. communication protocol should always be free and hardware neutral.
It's the actual computing that has changed.
almost everything we do on our computers nowadays is computed somewhere else, or at least it has to get permission from somewhere else to compute on our own hardware.
I don't think he was attacking protocols. Apparenrlyimaheretic is referencing how the purpose, is authority, of a PC is being transfered to the cloud. It doesn't matter what you use because all of the software (and control over that software) is transferring to someone else. Want to start up your word processor? Connect to microsoft365. Want to play your ubisoft game? Connect to ubisoft servers.
This is different argument than I'm making, and it is not attacking communication protocols (as you have implied) but instead noted nearly all the software is transferring to the cloud and so with it the authority/control of the PC experience. Devices are merely becoming a gateway to use someone else's (I.e. cloud) software
you replied to the smallest part of my post
Interesting, I'll have to be more observant of this going forward
Never really thought of it because still saving and organising almost everything consider valuable to me
For over 10 years only used maps as a reference guide and rarely used the active directions instruction feature. Found most of all that people will think of you as crazy if you don't use maps for that alone
I prefer tangible media as well.
cable tv, car hire, blockbuster
in the 70s people rented TVs, washing machines, fridges - it's just these things became cheap enough to buy
people rent furniture now, lease vehicles etc.
when you've been alive long enough, you see these trends come and go
I had touch with the first PC in 1981 with DOS as an OS. I still have a few PC around me, oned dedicated to music production running Win 10, the others running Debian Linux. Since I do alot of research in many fields I have big book library on the machines maintained with calibre software. I still have and buy many books for my physical library, mostly in the field of science and gardening or plant and soil science. I see big advantage in the AI, though also the dangers of it. Only in an environment of a spiritually awakened society AI will be for good of humankind.