It took me a few thought cycles to put down that question.

In my understanding, we, as a civilization, are on a high wire number over a pit of knifes. The AI craze is full throtle as we speak, with conflicting indicators that it may/will cause the worst economical crash ever - becoming third in less than twenty years, where each was always reported as an unprecedented and irrepeatable event - while at the same time infiltrating companies in ways we are still to discover how ruinous may prove and spreading over the internet like a grotesque parasite, rendering services unsuable and leaking sensible data.

If the great AI companies tank (I can only hope) and the services they provide - whatever those may be - faill, how much is it going to affect companies? There is really no sense of consensus; some say it was the best thing ever, others are registering neglictable improvements, others failed miserably and had to return to the original state of affairs.

Then there is the constant attack from agents on the net, rendering websites, more or less important, more or less useable or stealing, destroying or corrupting valueable data.

I've reached a point where I am willing to forego internet and even computers. Even technology in a wide sense. At best, I may keep an air gapped machine, to use for writing and printing documents. But will others do it? And if so, will 8t happen in an organic fashion or will things devolve to a point where something cracks and things just get ugly? Because people are tired. Tired of datacenters popping up like poisonous mushrooms everywhere, destroying everything.

People are getting tired. Everywhere.

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[–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Theres an interesting article on Collapse OS that I reference quite a bit.

https://collapseos.org/why.html

Personally I think the answer is a big NO. Because theres just so much tech out there.

BUT we may see little collapses all over in our lifetime. The latest computer cost going up is just one. I remember not being able to get certain items from time to time because of something globally happening. Its always a good thing to come up with alternatives just in case. Because in my lifetime ive had issues with getting:

  1. Electricity out for more than a week (California brownout/power failures)
  2. Water (main pipe blew out in apartments, no water for a couple of days)
  3. Food (many, many, many recalls)
  4. Pandemic
  5. Strange weather (ash falling from the sky, toxic chemical air for a bit, etc...)

Its good to have a grab and go bag. Its good to have a plan. Its NOT good to see the above list and think: This is the new norm. It shouldn't be. It probably wont be.

Analog technology is great and we should always have alternatives.

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