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Originally Posted by Pretzelle
I have a fear of it every once in awhile, but I think a lot of it is unfounded paranoia on my part. There are still a lot of people (not just old people!) who know very little about computers. I'm still surprised by the number of younger people around me who don't have basic computer skills, or afraid of new technology. By simply existing, those people will probably create their own demographic in the future, and they'll be a job for real humans to deal with it. I don't think technology could ever replace human creativity either. Sure, it might be a novelty at first...but people like knowing that something was created by another human being. That's why there are sites for people who sell their arts and crafts. Other people like buying something unique, not something that can be replicated over and over by a machine in a factory.
I'm having a hard time saying exactly what I mean, but here's a video I watched recently. I think it helps, and it made me feel a little better.
Will Robots Make Us More Human?
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Didn't watch the video yet, but I find that interesting you mentioned younger people being uneasy with new technology.
I was just thinking how pitifully anti-progressivw I must seem: I find I prefer things reminiscent of the past then most things charging into the future.
I'm rather master a dead language or read classic novels than study the latest CS development (I tend to be oblivious to them); I prefer old-fashioned aesthetics then anything "modern", which tends to just mean ugly. I find stories from the past more inspiring than anything recent. Most interest I have in modern technology is mostly out of a feeling of obligation, that I should understand it, even though I'm not hugely interested.
Yes, there's some part of me that's irrationally afraid of it too, as this thread basically states. I hate that I'm like this, yet I can't see myself as a technophile either. Like there's something.... lacking, in a hyper-technical existence. Or I could be wrong, intuition isn't always trustworthy.
Probably hypocrisy from someone who can't put down her tablet for 10 minutes, but I guess awareness is the first step.