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Originally Posted by Xist
Ah, the good old days!  |
I don't actually think we're much happier, if at all. Fewer suicides in places where living is more difficult. Perhaps it's easier to be grateful when the odds of making it to the next day aren't so great, yet you make it.
Even so, practically nobody chooses to go backwards. We could be living in tipis and cutting things with sharp stones, but few decide to live that way. Once someone accepts one convenience, it's difficult to decide where to draw the line.
Robot vacuums now have the option to automatically empty the dirt bin. At some point we're going to invent a way for that dirt bin to be emptied automatically.
I mentioned it before, but the first episode of Jetsons is about how inconvenient it was to push so many buttons to make it through living in modernity, so they bought Rosey to help out. Now only if there was a way to automatically tell a robot what to do...