We have access to incredible forms of technology, including near instant access to computers across the planet from devices that fit in our pockets. We seem to have organized much of the internet in a way that doesn’t benefit us and often is straight up antithetical to our wants and needs.

How would you change the ways we use software, hardware, sensors, robotics, and all the other amazing tech that’s available today to make the world a better place instead of a place where people scream at each other and get spoon fed ads and information they never asked for?

What does your tech utopia look like?

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    I’m going to hop onto this comment to add the biggest problem is the internet is too fast. Go back 20 years and people were stressing about every 10kb of script size. Think about everything that’s ruined by speed:

    • ads fucking everywhere
    • tracking scripts fucking everywhere
    • websites that support millions of users instead of fragmenting people and topics by niche
    • doom scrolling and infinite scrolling in general — people used to wait 10s for a page to load and then all the ui was client side
    • games are released as garbage requiring day-1 patches
    • engagement algorithms pushing people to unending video content to make them scared or outraged
    • always connected games for no fucking reason at all
    • probably dozens of more things

    Peak Internet was at DSL speeds. Fast enough to transfer text quickly but not effectively unlimited. Now we have 1Gbps and it’s fucking unhealthy.

    Editing to add new bad shit as I think of it.