• SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Agent Smith clarified that civilization progressed beyond 1999, but that it wasn’t human’s progress anymore.

    Agent Smith: “and I say ‘your’ civilization, because after we started thinking for you it became ‘our’ civilization.”

  • MusketeerX@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I still remember 1 Jan 2000. There did seem to be some sense of optimism about where things could go. At least for those of us lucky enough to live in stable, developed countries.

    Cold war over, Russia and The West seemingly on the same side, China opening up, exciting new tech connecting us but no toxic social media yet…

    But then… the dot com bust, 9/11, the GFC, toxic social media and the rise of “the algorithm”, Xi in China, Putin in Russia, a global pandemic…

    Didn’t really go where we hoped, can we restore to a backup from 1999 and try again??

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    10 months ago

    70’s for total quality of life, then we increased in digital quality of life while everything else fell then we increased in network quality of life but everything else fell. seems like the matrix any day now.