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All our social interactions will have to take place in an analog format in order to have any chance of being genuine in the future.
At least it will improve the quality of those interactions, and probably be good for the people themselves.
Many people seem to think that some of the good options our awesome technology provides is the ability to not only avoid doing certain work or avoid learning things, but to avoid using basic senses and interacting with the world we exist in.
Maybe think of it as a collective forced touch grass moment, lol.
Then maybe all of us will stop having the potential to act like such turds online. I know I get like that sometimes. Usually trolling a troll on Reddit, but still. I'm this close to leaving Reddit for good. I just need to find a few more good green energy instances to follow renewables.
Am I going to have to go outside again?
Yes, but go for a walk in Nature instead of wandering around a concrete wasteland.
Funny you mention this. I recently started exchanging snail mail with a friend I can also text anytime I want, just for shits and giggles. But I actually believe we will experience an uptick in analog, localized communication styles coming up
Even if you do, it's hard to tell if it'll be legitimate human interaction or just someone using AI.
AI has infiltrated everything. There is a pen pal app that acts in a similar way to snail mail. You get a limited number of stamps and send letters to people that take the approximate time to reach the other user based on how far apart you are irl. A couple of years ago the app became infested with people using AI to write their letters.
People have become incredibly lazy in every regard. I'd rather be a recluse than bother trying to chat with a society that has to use AI to speak on their behalf.
Depends entirely on how well funded the post system is gonna be. Plus information stealing