Technology harm on society

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I really don't feel like typing words now, but I hope I can get this in. Warning, this is kind of a rant.

With all the jobs being automated away in the long-term future, all it has seemed to do is leave a void in my/our life (and presently those whose jobs were automated away already). I have personal experience in a way. I remember thinking about a part-time job working as a projectionist in a movie theater during the period where they were going digital instead. And everyone else is responding by saying "Well, you won't need/desire to work anymore", and this comes off to me as just being callous. I sometimes wonder if I shouldn't try to "make it" because sooner or later, another automation machine is going to disrupt my employment and the others.

I don't want this to sound like I am a boring person who is against all forms of technology. I know that technology makes things more convenient, but the way it's automating human jobs and changing the way we do things in every aspect of life (more far-reaching and at a faster rate each time) is leaving a kind of void that people don't know what to replace it with yet. Even if such a void can be filled by something else, there will always be some people like me who yearns for a society before this takes place. Also about if we are able to replace the "void" left by technology or if it can be implemented before it's too late, all if that is only speculation.

I don't really believe that all the ways tech makes our world more convenient makes up for the possible void in our lives caused by automation or other changes in the way we do stuff. I think it is really sad and I do think about it a lot sometimes.

Theres a pretty good doco i've seen discussing what your talking about, though i warn it can come off as quite pessimistic. I think personally we are on the verge of a human revolution of sorts, as the monolithic industries and governments that are protecting their control at all costs are running out of excuses to hide technology that could propel us all into a star trek like society. Ultimately advancement in technology will free us, for now we are still in this absurd scarcity based society, where control in maintained by keeping the common people occupied with their own day to day survival.

The only thing worrying me about technology is the power Google and Facebook may have over our lives. Fortunately, it seems like companies where you are "the product being sold" (rather than the customer) are a bubble.

Personally I hate where technology is taking us, everyone focuses on the trivial human contact is removed. Always download the app or text me (I do not own a cell btw). Bear in mind that I have self taught myself computer programming and many other things technology wise, lately I am obsessed with chemistry. There is something to be said of doing it the old way, although it is all cyclical eventually society will get away from mass production and more toward artisanal which in some ways has already begun.