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I've just been reading about how in the future, AI will allow us to speak with animals, and people will be able to communicate telepathically and live in their own VR worlds. (etc., etc.)

Man, this isn't a world I want to live in. I'm so tired of the constant paradigm shifting that you have to put your brain through with each innovation. I wish technology just stayed frozen in the 1980s โ€“ there would be so much less uncertainty in my life and I could just focus on being a human.

Innovation keeps being forced on you and I just feel tired. >!And I'm only just in my 20s!< Is this ok? Is this valid? When resisting it is a loser's game...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think the thing that's causing me the fatigue though is the constant change. For 000s of years people lived their whole lives with no technological change, whereas I've only been here for 2 decades and yet the world already works much differently than it did back then.