Comment by pandoro
3 days ago
Depends on your point of view. Has the web been a net positive overall? If your criteria is "instant access to any information" or "catalyze more technological progress" then positive, if your criteria is "young people's mental health" or "how easy it is to control the public's perception about a certain topic" then negative in my opinion. It's all relative.
I judge it in the aggregate. Overall, we have higher standard of living than people 30 years ago.
If you judge on aggregate then "Every great technology developed to date has been a net positive" is nonsense.
You cannot judge aggregate positively and conclude that therefore each segment was positive.
> If you judge on aggregate then "Every great technology developed to date has been a net positive" is nonsense.
It's not nonsense. If you think so, provide one great technology that has been a net negative.
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30 years ago was the 90’s, when just about everything peaked.
The things I’d be truly missing from today 30 years ago, would be the advances in medicine really and the fact that we don’t have the ozone layer threat.
Most other things have peaked back then. Rising kids was definitely easier, and healthier.
This is just nostalgia. Most things are objectively better today.
No. We do not. So many people are nostalgic about 30 years where you could afford basic things on minimum wage for a reason.