When technology goes well it provides tons of value and becomes invisible. Like the layers in an OS or 1000s of parts in a car for example.
The complaints that life is more complex than before usually fail to compare it to the complexity of things we're accomplishing and what that could have looked like 50,500, 500 0 years ago...
made up example: Communicate with someone on the other side of the planet...
Now: type a message or skype, instantaneous, searchable, recorded backup...
- 50 yrs ago, make an international telephone call. Its unclear, not recorded, difficult to verify(securely) who you're talking with etc.
- 500 yrs ago, write, if you can, on some paper and send it via horses or merchants... who knows if its delivered or if an answer is coming
- 5000 yrs ago. No. You can only talk with people in your village unless you're wealthy, royal or otherwise powerful.
The complaints that life is more complex than before usually fail to compare it to the complexity of things we're accomplishing and what that could have looked like 50,500, 500 0 years ago...
made up example: Communicate with someone on the other side of the planet...
Now: type a message or skype, instantaneous, searchable, recorded backup...
- 50 yrs ago, make an international telephone call. Its unclear, not recorded, difficult to verify(securely) who you're talking with etc.
- 500 yrs ago, write, if you can, on some paper and send it via horses or merchants... who knows if its delivered or if an answer is coming
- 5000 yrs ago. No. You can only talk with people in your village unless you're wealthy, royal or otherwise powerful.