[Misc] Modern life

[Paulie Gualtieri]

I’ve been to Gothenburg in person twice, yet only discovered their fascination with Pizza on here.

Progress? I think so.

 

[portlock seagull]

Everything? Football chat sites?

Yes, because they too are a consumption of time better replaced by being down the pub with mates talking tete a tete in the old days with an Evening Argus and John Vinnicombes inside scoop

 

[BiffyBoy]

There’s so many more options available through dating apps. Porn is readily available of all shapes and sizes and perversions. Things like OnlyFans have warped peoples’ minds.

When I was younger, you really only had the options of the girls in your local village or school.

That’s not the case anymore.

Porn is going to go next level. I tried one of the meta headsets (for purely research purposes), and it's scary.

I was thinking about dating apps the other day. I wonder what the increase has been in sexual partners (for both men and women) since the introduction of dating apps. It's got to have increased by a crazy amount!

 

[Justice]

I hate it.

Everything about it, but especially the digital world we are forced to live in.

I think we just live in a really over populated crap expensive country which is rush rush rush.
The normal person is existing not living in the UK.
I’m amazed why people risk their lives to get to this shithole just to exist on benefits in some cockroach infested crap flat with mould on the walls.
Each to their own I suppose. The People in the med actually seem to mostly enjoy themselves and are way more relaxed that’s where I would be heading.

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

Porn is going to go next level. I tried one of the meta headsets (for purely research purposes), and it's scary.

I was thinking about dating apps the other day. I wonder what the increase has been in sexual partners (for both men and women) since the introduction of dating apps. It's got to have increased by a crazy amount!

I’d hate to be single now, quite frankly. I used dating apps for a period when I was, and they were a horrible experience, and I was lucky enough to be one of the guys that did get matches and dates. I know a few of the younger guys at work are on them and they’ll regularly go months with no matches. I imagine it’s one of those things where a small % of men get the majority of women, and the rest of the male population are left with scraps. God knows what it would be like hitting on a woman in a public setting now too… I can’t even fathom how bad that would be.

As for the VR headsets, they’re a great experience, but I always think of the film Wall-E when I see people using them. I think it’s a step too far for me.

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

So you predate page 3 and porn mags hidden in bushes?

I’d say I was of that era. FHM and the like were prime wank bank material.

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

Work was definitely better in the 1980's - 1990's when companies still looked after their staff to some extent. With all the extra technology, how come relative pay and benefits have fallen dramatically in the last 30 years.
When I started work at a large insurer we had:
Reasonable pay
Flex time
Decent Holidays
Final Salary Pension Scheme
Company Sports Clubs
Discounted mortgages
Work minibus travel
Extravagant Christmas Parties
Modern Offices

The technology was a mainframe computer system, and a telephone.

This is the biggest issue. The amount of people of my parents’ era living the life on final salary pensions, in 4 bed houses they bought for £50,000 is scary. Gen X and the following generations simply won’t know such luxury.

 

[nsclurker]

I’m 50 next year so I’m Gen X. I’ve had a home computer since I was about 7 so technology has always fascinated me and I love the time we live in. Never been stressed by technology and have made my career out of it.

Technological advancement has meant twice my mum has survived cancer by picking up problems before any symptoms were really visible. Without those my kids would be growing up having never known their grandmother.

Technology is neither good or bad. It’s how it’s used that matters.

Technology is anything invented after you were born. Anything before that is just normal life.

From when they were little, my kids had no issues with DVD players, mobile phones, computers, or anything else as they had always been there.

My folks, on the other hand...

Alternatively:

Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

 

[stewart12]

I can only suppose you’re Gen Z or Millennial and know no different? Nothing wrong with that but boy has tech destroyed all that was once simple and good in this world, to be replaced with stress basically.

Millennials definitely know different. The majority of our childhoods were spent without it really. The first iPhone for example came out when I was about 20

In fact a fairly key trait of millennials is that our lives aren't dominated by tech like people ever so slightly younger than us but we're still way more tech savvy than people a little bit older- mostly because of when we entered the workplace

 

[Change at Barnham]

Work was definitely better in the 1980's - 1990's when companies still looked after their staff to some extent. With all the extra technology, how come relative pay and benefits have fallen dramatically in the last 30 years.
When I started work at a large insurer we had:
Reasonable pay
Flex time
Decent Holidays
Final Salary Pension Scheme
Company Sports Clubs
Discounted mortgages
Work minibus travel
Extravagant Christmas Parties
Modern Offices

The technology was a mainframe computer system, and a telephone.

I had all that when I worked as Man from the Pru ('83 to '97). It was magnificent, best days ever.
Then I got made redundant largely due to technology.

 

[portlock seagull]

Millennials definitely know different. The majority of our childhoods were spent without it really. The first iPhone for example came out when I was about 20

Before smart phones, there were mobiles and ‘the net’ already beginning to dominate life. The shit was already a shower, and the monsoon about to begin. Its never stopped!

 

[Eeyore]

I prefer it. It would just be better if all the nasty people weren't able to use the technology.

 

[drew]

In hindsight, there was something incredibly quaint about the 5 minutes it took to load one slightly erotic picture. It was effectively a form of edging.

I do think it’s modern technology has seriously impacted what we perceive to be attractive though.

5 minutes to download is still the digital era.

 

[Mustafa II]

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”
​

― Edward O. Wilson

 

[Change at Barnham]

In today's world is there ever a time when a moment happens like at a party/disco and there is an opportunity for a slow dance at the end of the evening to a bit of Barry White?
Those smooches and holding a girl close to you as the evening ended was magical.

Hooking up with someone via a mobile phone, having a shag and then going separate ways must feel very unromantic.
I suppose Bazza is available via Spotify on mobiles.

 

[boik]

One thing that hasn't changed in the modern world is people moaning about how things were better in the good old days.

Obviously they can do it online now though!

 

[BadFish]

I prefer it too.

Except for trying to communicate with companies. The tyranny of technology is one of the few things that makes me irate.

However, it's not the fault of the tech, it's the fault of the companies using the tech to make it difficult to communicate with them.

Big companies are far more responsible for the misery of today's world than technology, IMHO like.

 

[Eeyore]

One thing that hasn't changed in the modern world is people moaning about how things were better in the good old days.

Obviously they can do it online now though!

I agree with that. There is much about decades gone by which was better, but much about modern life which is so much better than that. The truth is always somewhere in between. Probably about 1998

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Go and sit in a wood? Get back to nature for a bit?

Where the porn bushes are?

 

[GT49er]

You know you don't have to, right? Same as you're not 'forced to live in' any sort of digital world. Yes, it makes a huge difference to have an email address and possibly a smartphone, but no-one is forcing you to go balls-deep into digitising every aspect of your life.

Gotta be honest, you're the one who can change it – and how 'digital' you want to be. It's almost completely up to you...

You do have to, increasingly, that's the point. The Albion's preferred method of ticketing is clearly by smartphone; there are alternatives available at the moment, but give it a couple of seasons and probably it'll be completely compulsory to have a smartphone if you want to get into the Amex on a match day.
There are already some events and venues which operate like this. There are many car parks you can't use without a smart phone.

And you can sit there and say, "It's up to you"? No it isn't!