• @GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
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    220 hours ago

    If they only still made them like Bowie…

    I agree with everything that you’ve said, it’s sad and pathetic, but we’ve invited the monster inside. The calls are coming from inside the house now.

    • @sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 hours ago

      Black Mirror?

      Oh, you mean the phone you hold in front of your face all the time, everyday, right?

      When the screen’s not on… literally black, glossy, relflective…

      Please tell me I am not the only person who immediately made that association when that show came out.

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          19 hours ago

          I really do feel terribly for Gen Z and A.

          I am old enough that I remeber having to actually memorize phone numbers, used a phone booth a few times, could navigate around my town and generally on highways without a GPS/Map mounted to the dash.

          The kids barely ever knew the analog world, and its not like us Millenials are any better parents than ours were.

          When the infrastructure starts to give out, from climate disasters, or people can’t afford it any more due to economic depression…

          A bunch of people are basically going to go into withdrawl and become feral.

          Why think, why learn? AI does it for you!

          Untill that service is no longer available in your area.

          • @GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
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            21 hour ago

            I’m old enough I can remember operating an 8-track deck in my dad’s truck. Didn’t have GPS accessible until oh geez, probably my later 20s? My kids are very young, so they only know the touchscreen world.

            I don’t think there’s any going back. If we had to, like if there was a bad event or whatever, I’d like to think we could all eventually adapt, but it would be rough for sure. A lot of people wouldn’t make it.

            • @sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              138 minutes ago

              “We can’t rewind, we’ve gone too far…”

              I wanna poke fun at you for actually having an 8 track, but at this point, culture is auto-cannibalizing, so I think we should just mostly celebrate, and maybe personally archive, what was once good.