I don’t think the idea that all new technology is loved by young people is correct. Boomers love AI and are addicted to social media too. They love that shit.
I think what is more likely is that people of certain demographics are more susceptible to marketing and peer pressure than others. I even think that a lot of times there are a lots of reasons why a product might not take off that is independent of demographics altogether a lot of the time
Capitalists want a simple, measurable, predicable market of constant growth and regular periodic innovation but sometimes real life doesn’t work like that. Innovation and technology doesn’t move in a gradual straight line like a video game tech tree. It’s sporadic, has offshoots, sometimes doesn’t change for a long time and other times changes very quickly. Not all of it is useful or long lasting, some is. You can’t force it in the same way Disney can’t just force people to like the movies they churn out periodically just because they ticked all the right boxes. It has to be natural, in the right place at the right time.
Real life is not a Civ game with known quantities and tech trees, where you know exactly how much gold, food, culture and tech points you are going to get next turn.
Which is why Elon Musk’s favorite game is Persepolis, which is Civ on mobile for children.
Always surprises me how the generation who grew up with newspapers and black & white TV almost have a tendency to be more brainrotted and slop-obsessed than digital natives?
I’m 22, I was watching Annoying Orange on an ipad in 3rd grade, yet now I can easily watch a 3 hour indie slowburn film if I like the premise. Meanwhile my parents will be so hooked to something on their phone, that they don’t even realize when someone is saying their name or trying to talk to them? I’ve seen that in a lot of older people, like they almost fall in a trance where they don’t perceive the world outside their phone, but never a younger person
Younger people do it during games. They go into a zombie state and you have to threaten to take it away from them or turn it off to snap them out of it
Social Media first gained popularity due to young people though, they were the early adopters. Old people came in later. Myspace and Facebook were both for teenagers/college students.
You’re right, that’s true. Maybe social media probably wasn’t the best example on my part, lol
My point still stands though, yes, a lot of the time new tech is embraced by young people, but a lot isn’t and AI is one of those times. Survivorship bias makes us forget all of the new toys that didn’t catch on. Especially as capitalism enters it’s later stages and enshittification makes these products low quality earlier and earlier on
Then you have the recent(ish) problem of the market starting to try and invent new tech for the sole purpose of being an investment for wealthy people, like NFTs and the Metaverse. Sometimes they’re not even trying to make something useful, they’re just making something and hoping if they convince everyone hard enough it will become the next big thing
I think humans have a habit of thinking that the way things have been during their short lives is a cycle that has been happening forever, but the capitalism of today is very different than the capitalism of 20 or even 10 years ago, I think young peoples skepticism of AI is just one sign of that
I guess I’m just trying to say is technological progress is more complicated and unpredicable than markets like to pretend it is
I don’t think the idea that all new technology is loved by young people is correct.
Yeah, I think that was just an 80s-2000s thing where computers were still niche enough that someone stuck in their ways could delude themselves into thinking that they were no more important an invention than microwave ovens, while anyone who bothered learning about them would find real, tangible benefits, with new capabilities every single year. Then in the 2010s Grandma got a Facebook and the best you could expect to get from computer skills was reduced to a fairly cushy job.
I don’t think the idea that all new technology is loved by young people is correct. Boomers love AI and are addicted to social media too. They love that shit.
I think what is more likely is that people of certain demographics are more susceptible to marketing and peer pressure than others. I even think that a lot of times there are a lots of reasons why a product might not take off that is independent of demographics altogether a lot of the time
Capitalists want a simple, measurable, predicable market of constant growth and regular periodic innovation but sometimes real life doesn’t work like that. Innovation and technology doesn’t move in a gradual straight line like a video game tech tree. It’s sporadic, has offshoots, sometimes doesn’t change for a long time and other times changes very quickly. Not all of it is useful or long lasting, some is. You can’t force it in the same way Disney can’t just force people to like the movies they churn out periodically just because they ticked all the right boxes. It has to be natural, in the right place at the right time.
I don’t know if I’m making any sense lol
Real life is not a Civ game with known quantities and tech trees, where you know exactly how much gold, food, culture and tech points you are going to get next turn.
Which is why Elon Musk’s favorite game is Persepolis, which is Civ on mobile for children.
It’s actually The Battle of Polytopia, my brain is cursed to remember pointless shit.
Always surprises me how the generation who grew up with newspapers and black & white TV almost have a tendency to be more brainrotted and slop-obsessed than digital natives?
I’m 22, I was watching Annoying Orange on an ipad in 3rd grade, yet now I can easily watch a 3 hour indie slowburn film if I like the premise. Meanwhile my parents will be so hooked to something on their phone, that they don’t even realize when someone is saying their name or trying to talk to them? I’ve seen that in a lot of older people, like they almost fall in a trance where they don’t perceive the world outside their phone, but never a younger person
Younger people do it during games. They go into a zombie state and you have to threaten to take it away from them or turn it off to snap them out of it
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Social Media first gained popularity due to young people though, they were the early adopters. Old people came in later. Myspace and Facebook were both for teenagers/college students.
You’re right, that’s true. Maybe social media probably wasn’t the best example on my part, lol
My point still stands though, yes, a lot of the time new tech is embraced by young people, but a lot isn’t and AI is one of those times. Survivorship bias makes us forget all of the new toys that didn’t catch on. Especially as capitalism enters it’s later stages and enshittification makes these products low quality earlier and earlier on
Then you have the recent(ish) problem of the market starting to try and invent new tech for the sole purpose of being an investment for wealthy people, like NFTs and the Metaverse. Sometimes they’re not even trying to make something useful, they’re just making something and hoping if they convince everyone hard enough it will become the next big thing
I think humans have a habit of thinking that the way things have been during their short lives is a cycle that has been happening forever, but the capitalism of today is very different than the capitalism of 20 or even 10 years ago, I think young peoples skepticism of AI is just one sign of that
I guess I’m just trying to say is technological progress is more complicated and unpredicable than markets like to pretend it is
Yeah, I think that was just an 80s-2000s thing where computers were still niche enough that someone stuck in their ways could delude themselves into thinking that they were no more important an invention than microwave ovens, while anyone who bothered learning about them would find real, tangible benefits, with new capabilities every single year. Then in the 2010s Grandma got a Facebook and the best you could expect to get from computer skills was reduced to a fairly cushy job.
Exactly. What is it my mother does as soon as she gets home for the night? Put on a novella on the TV and scroll Facebook.
Mind numbing stuff, at least focus on one thing!!