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Tech Doesn’t Make Our Lives Easier. It Makes Them Faster
Our modern lives are built from globe-spanning supply chains that require vast logistics systems and incredible communication speed to make sense. Each technology not only unlocks a new state of expanded acceleration (that will be hardcoded into our lives as the new basis for our survival), but will also be used as the basis for new technologies to
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The basic rule is this: technology doesn't make our lives easier. It makes them faster and more crammed with stuff.
Brett Scott • Tech Doesn’t Make Our Lives Easier. It Makes Them Faster
We live in a mega-scale corporate capitalist economy, and in such a setting technology is never used to save time.
Brett Scott • Tech Doesn’t Make Our Lives Easier. It Makes Them Faster
Regardless of whether you’re working more or less, your nervous system is now plugged into a neurotic and hypersensitive globe-spanning information system that’s constantly pushing unnecessary things into your consciousness. Perversely, this information obesity actually makes us feel more sluggish . We might be moving faster, but everything starts ... See more
Brett Scott • Tech Doesn’t Make Our Lives Easier. It Makes Them Faster
The basic rule is this: technology doesn't make our lives easier. It makes them faster and more crammed with stuff.
Brett Scott • Tech Doesn’t Make Our Lives Easier. It Makes Them Faster
The problem goes deeper than this. Increasingly our tech also opens us up to new vectors of anxiety. Regardless of whether you’re working more or less, your nervous system is now plugged into a neurotic and hypersensitive globe-spanning information system that’s constantly pushing unnecessary things into your consciousness.
Brett Scott • Tech Doesn’t Make Our Lives Easier. It Makes Them Faster
tech being more convenient comes at a cost