by KaiserJeep » Thu 08 Nov 2018, 11:46:04
Tanada, the part of that whole description that you are missing is that digital technology is literally the Fourth Wave of Industrial Revolution. It enables just-in-time manufacturing, instant communications, efficient fuel consumption, advanced medicines, instant access to information, online shopping for literally everything, and numerous other capabilities that cannot and will not exist without such devices.
Without the network and digital devices, many people starve and shiver in the cold. Trying to undo these efficiencies is simply not happening. I agree that many people will spend less time in the online world, but they are not gonna substitute any other activity costing money for free online entertainment, either. Digital everything is the clearest example of Pandora's Box one will ever encounter.
Which is why the network is spreading through the Third World as we speak, why Ibon has WiFi and gives his day workers digital breaks to access the network on top of his mountain. There is WiFi and solar phone charging up in the homeless encampment above my house, the advantages are simply too much to ever allow the network to go away for less important ways of spending time, such as scavenging for food. (There are tip lines for food handouts, and good things at the curb on trash days, and where you can find day work to buy your intoxicants, etc.)
It's not a matter of "finding time", it's because you stand a much higher chance of not starving with a phone and a network. In the homeless encampment, one phone with network access enables a WiFi hotspot with dozens of other phones, tablets, etc. sharing that network. No, they cannot watch video, but they can text one another and share online bulletin boards. Zero income has not regressed them to no network access.
They used to gather around a campfire, now they are clustering around their WiFi hotspot. Drunken homeless guy staggering down the street, texting, is not something I ever expected to see.
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