Speaking of that last bit, in 25 years, there will probably be nearly no imagination left. Nearly all tasks requiring thinking will be delegated to AIs and computers. The average IQ rate will be so low that society will be barely capable of functioning, and will be completely immobilized and actively collapsing the moment there's a long term power outage (i.e. longer than 24 hours). Your average car mechanic will be able to demonstrate far more critical thinking abilities than University students, and be capable of formulating far more cohesive arguments than them, by sheer virtue of the fact that they actually need to use several parts of their brain in their regular work functions that will have atrophied in the majority of the population. Without a spell-checker, your average American will be incapable of writing a single sentence in English without it being filled with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, even if the only language they know and have used their entire lives is English. And that's assuming that English even remains the country's primary language, which is not a guarantee.
Unless we can find a way to get the youth away from electronic devices for at least an uninterrupted third or preferably half of their waking hours, then they will constantly remain glued to their phones and computer screens and their brain development and basic motor functions will permanently severely deteriorate. I don't see a bright future if that happens. Our society will be ripe for the picking by an outside one that hasn't yet degraded as much as ours.
I don't think that's a winnable fight. All this stuff about keeping young people of social media's a farce. It's a trojan horse for blanket surveillance and they don't actually want them off electronics. They want to funnel them into spaces that are sanitized and censored. To minimize their exposure to anything that isn't propaganda during their formative years. Public "education" for all, by force.
I'd rather they have unrestricted access to other people's ideas, even if it meant unrestricted device access. Because that's the only exposure they're going to get to anything that questions what they're fed by the media. If I thought there was the slightest chance that reduced usage would return to the, "go outside and play," I'd be there with you. But it's not coming back. They're going to kick them off of social media and try to replace it with passive media. Just watch the slop. You're not legally mature enough to access any conversation where it's being called slop. They will struggle to stop in-person conversations at schools. They'd love to isolate the students from one another, but remote has the risk of parents seeing what they're teaching. I wonder if there will be an eventual push for mandatory individual learning, but only government school sites.
The genie's not going back in the bottle. Might as well fight to keep it as accessible, open, and decentralized as possible instead.
Speaking of that last bit, in 25 years, there will probably be nearly no imagination left. Nearly all tasks requiring thinking will be delegated to AIs and computers. The average IQ rate will be so low that society will be barely capable of functioning, and will be completely immobilized and actively collapsing the moment there's a long term power outage (i.e. longer than 24 hours). Your average car mechanic will be able to demonstrate far more critical thinking abilities than University students, and be capable of formulating far more cohesive arguments than them, by sheer virtue of the fact that they actually need to use several parts of their brain in their regular work functions that will have atrophied in the majority of the population. Without a spell-checker, your average American will be incapable of writing a single sentence in English without it being filled with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, even if the only language they know and have used their entire lives is English. And that's assuming that English even remains the country's primary language, which is not a guarantee.
Unless we can find a way to get the youth away from electronic devices for at least an uninterrupted third or preferably half of their waking hours, then they will constantly remain glued to their phones and computer screens and their brain development and basic motor functions will permanently severely deteriorate. I don't see a bright future if that happens. Our society will be ripe for the picking by an outside one that hasn't yet degraded as much as ours.
I don't think that's a winnable fight. All this stuff about keeping young people of social media's a farce. It's a trojan horse for blanket surveillance and they don't actually want them off electronics. They want to funnel them into spaces that are sanitized and censored. To minimize their exposure to anything that isn't propaganda during their formative years. Public "education" for all, by force.
I'd rather they have unrestricted access to other people's ideas, even if it meant unrestricted device access. Because that's the only exposure they're going to get to anything that questions what they're fed by the media. If I thought there was the slightest chance that reduced usage would return to the, "go outside and play," I'd be there with you. But it's not coming back. They're going to kick them off of social media and try to replace it with passive media. Just watch the slop. You're not legally mature enough to access any conversation where it's being called slop. They will struggle to stop in-person conversations at schools. They'd love to isolate the students from one another, but remote has the risk of parents seeing what they're teaching. I wonder if there will be an eventual push for mandatory individual learning, but only government school sites.
The genie's not going back in the bottle. Might as well fight to keep it as accessible, open, and decentralized as possible instead.