Subj : Re: Computer Kits
To   : Jeff
From : boraxman
Date : Sat Jan 29 2022 00:01:07

 Je> It does have limits. In some ways we've reached our limits; in others we
 Je> haven't. To someone who grew up with the internet and phone apps, those
 Je> things just exist, seemingly have always existed, and seemingly will
 Je> exist forever. They have adapted. Some of us who predate that technology
 Je> may not have. Adaptation as a species is not the same as adaptation as
 Je> an individual.
 Je> 


Sorry, accidently saves the message.

We have adapted, but we will continue to adapt to smooth over the rough edges.  Australia is looking at laws to unmask anonymous people on Social Media and give greater power to regulate them.

Whether you agree or not is not the problem, I think the trend will be to push for regulation and control.

 Je> The world that the youth of today are growing up in is different from our
 Je> youth, just as our youth was different from that of our parents. When I
 Je> was a kid, it was heavy metal music and video games that were going to
 Je> be the downfall of society as we knew it. I knew how to use a computer
 Je> (and a VCR!) long before my parents did, and now I ask my daughter to
 Je> configure new devices for me.
 Je> 


I'm not suggesting the world is ending.  See, you don't know better.  There are people who live in very authoritarian regimes, who just went about their lives.  They didn't know better.

Humans can COPE with great adversity.  Society will still function, but with problems.  It's always functioned with problems, and will function with more and more problems.

Even North Korea functions.

I personally do not believe my children are going to have a better life than I did.  I don't envy them, which is really, really sad.

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