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Christopher Meesto Erato's avatar

Great Progression? More like Total Degeneration. You sound naïve or are just another full of shit tech utopia freak. Every generation has people like you - full of the promises of innovation and technology to make our lives better. Well that's not the way it has gone for anyone with a basic understanding about quality of life issues. We work more for less money than since the last Gilded Age and tech has not simplified our lives but made them more complicated and fragmented. Most social scientists around the world now agree that the invention of the smart phone in early 2000s and explosion of superficial social medias utilizing brain washing algorithms to create addiction is the number cause of teen depression - especially for females. The toxic waste created every minute from millions of gadgets and computers being tossed out into landfills around the world is destroying the planet. After the first big wave of useful inventions in the early 20th century like running water for all, refrigerators, washing machines, penicillin, early vaccines and less importantly - cars, Radio and TV - nothing since these has made life easier or better including this computer I am typing into. Your type seem to think that tech can solve all problems but actually creates most problems that humanity and the planet face today. For every amazing invention you come up with I will counter with reality of what the toxic ecological effects are based on mass consumption and exponential numbers. Your type of tech enthusiast bore and now anger me given the horrible state of nature with Mother Nature finally starting to push back with extreme weather events etc. Unless we slow down and take stock of what is truly important in life - family, friends and community and a healthy nature to live in- we are all screwed and will end up as another fossil layer sooner than later. For profit anything always ends up being evil.

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Anna | BACK TO SENSES's avatar

The Fourth Turning is here - but we are in an extraordinary times. We need a lot of resilience, and that comes from hope and creativity over reactivity. How we frame things shapes our perception, and our perception influences our actions.

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