JVL wrote: "Reminding us that forced marches into the future aren’t always wise ..."
I'm not sure why the "forced" is in there, so I may be misinterpreting. But isn't a forced march into the future just one way of describing being alive? As long as one is alive, things will change. Or as Neil Peart (RIP) trenchantly put it: "Constant chan…
JVL wrote: "Reminding us that forced marches into the future aren’t always wise ..."
I'm not sure why the "forced" is in there, so I may be misinterpreting. But isn't a forced march into the future just one way of describing being alive? As long as one is alive, things will change. Or as Neil Peart (RIP) trenchantly put it: "Constant change is here to stay".
The rate of change is certainly an issue to some/many; some social psychologists think this is a continuum that identifies liberals and conservatives fairly well. But that's a very different, and much more specific, idea.
No, I think the "forced" stuff is like when someone argues to you that "X is the future, so you have to get on board with X". You ask, "How do you know X is the future? Are you clairvoyant? Or are you just hoping to make X the future by insisting it has to be, even when it doesn't?"
Judging by the Meta read JVL recommended, Meta is trying to do that to its own employees. "Meta is the future!" "No, it's not! We don't even like using it!" "It's the future because Meta says it is!"
Thank you for the reply; this makes more sense to me.
It's easy for companies to try to coerce certain behaviors from their employees while on the clock, as Meta is ... it's another thing entirely (for now, at least) for them to try to do that with their customers. I say this as an early and enthusiastic user of email and the internet way back in the day who dislikes Alexa and similar gadgets and will never buy one.
There's a Weird Al song where he describes technology pranking you by buying you "a warehouse full of pink leotards". I figure that, with Alexa AND small children in the house, that might actually happen. So, no Alexa for the foreseeable future.
JVL wrote: "Reminding us that forced marches into the future aren’t always wise ..."
I'm not sure why the "forced" is in there, so I may be misinterpreting. But isn't a forced march into the future just one way of describing being alive? As long as one is alive, things will change. Or as Neil Peart (RIP) trenchantly put it: "Constant change is here to stay".
The rate of change is certainly an issue to some/many; some social psychologists think this is a continuum that identifies liberals and conservatives fairly well. But that's a very different, and much more specific, idea.
No, I think the "forced" stuff is like when someone argues to you that "X is the future, so you have to get on board with X". You ask, "How do you know X is the future? Are you clairvoyant? Or are you just hoping to make X the future by insisting it has to be, even when it doesn't?"
Judging by the Meta read JVL recommended, Meta is trying to do that to its own employees. "Meta is the future!" "No, it's not! We don't even like using it!" "It's the future because Meta says it is!"
Thank you for the reply; this makes more sense to me.
It's easy for companies to try to coerce certain behaviors from their employees while on the clock, as Meta is ... it's another thing entirely (for now, at least) for them to try to do that with their customers. I say this as an early and enthusiastic user of email and the internet way back in the day who dislikes Alexa and similar gadgets and will never buy one.
We have banned Alexa from our house.
There's a Weird Al song where he describes technology pranking you by buying you "a warehouse full of pink leotards". I figure that, with Alexa AND small children in the house, that might actually happen. So, no Alexa for the foreseeable future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvfD5rnkTws
And I don't like Siri, either. I told Siri this once, "Siri, you're an incompetent." She replied, "Searching the web for 'urine incontinence'."
How did I miss seeing that video?! Thank you for sharing; it brought me a big laugh, as did your Siri story.
Change is constant, and death is inevitable.
But it's one thing to die in your sleep. It's quite another for someone to murder you.
A "forced march" is more like murder than it is the normal flow into the future. Of course everything changes. I didn't read JVL as disputing that...