A Boring Dystopia

11596 readers

110 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--If a picture is just a screenshot of an article, link the article

--If a video's content isn't clear from title, write a short summary so people know what it's about.

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Just found an interesting quote from buffy the vampire slayer for our technodystopia. (piefed.social)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I was watching buffy and the eighth episode of the first season a demon is scanned into the computers. This is a funny time as its when people where online with dialup. All the same it had a quote I feel is apropos to the current period. Truns out that show had a bit of the simpsons precog ability:

Giles: Nonsense! I simply don't adhere to a, a knee-jerk assumption that because something is new, it's better.

Ms. Calendar: This isn't a fad, Rupert! We are creating a new society here.

Giles: A society in which human interaction is all but obsolete? In which people can be completely manipulated by technology, well, well... Thank you, I'll pass.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

At the same time technology is neutral, it's humans who chose this, so frankly less interaction and a bit more technology might be highly beneficial.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

as long as you don't count software as technology because it, especially algorithms, are often not neutral.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The software didn't code itself

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

originally but it is a thing now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But the other poster's point still stands. Technology in general, and algorithms specifically, are neutral. It's humans deciding what to put into production and what metrics need to be met that cause the problems, not the technology itself. Blaming "technology" is just a way to let the humans making decisions off the hook.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

true. its dystopia because done in another way it could be utopia.