WHAT I THOUGHT COMPUTERS WOULD BRING US: An enlightened future full of reason and leisure

WHAT COMPUTERS ACTUALLY BROUGHT US: “We are proud to announce that the Torment Nexus now supports dark mode”

“the internet was supposed to make people smarter, instead, it made stupid people louder”

@Viss at the risk of making this too political, let me fix that for you:

WHAT I THOUGHT COMPUTERS [IN A CAPITALIST SOCIETY] WOULD BRING US: An enlightened future full of reason and leisure

WHAT COMPUTERS [IN A CAPITALIST SOCIETY] ACTUALLY BROUGHT US: “We are proud to announce that the Torment Nexus now supports dark mode”

I admit, I was naive enough to think computers and capitalism would lead to an enlightened future full of reason and leisure as well. What I didn’t know was that capitalism was not about markets but exploitation, and computers just made it easier to propagandize and exploit people, making them louder and stupider.

Well, hopefully now we all know better.

@jalefkowit