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[AnotherGuy]

Wow, what a topic!
Great discussion for a debate.

 

[Retros_x]

For the sake of discussion you somehow have the ability to go back in time and suddenly stop a branch of the tech tree from going further. Which aspect of technology are you putting a cap on and from what year?

For me, I'd have to only go back to about 2007 or so and stop social media from going beyond the everyone plays Farmville on Facebook.

Definitely exact the same. Social media were a mistake and if I had the power to remove them from our modern world I would do it with no doubt.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

For the sake of discussion you somehow have the ability to go back in time and suddenly stop a branch of the tech tree from going further. Which aspect of technology are you putting a cap on and from what year?

For me, I'd have to only go back to about 2007 or so and stop social media from going beyond the everyone plays Farmville on Facebook.

I am not sure you could, social media is a broad and not terribly precise terms. More precisely, what would have to happen to change the course of that part of social media so that it would not develop in the way it has.

To do that, I am not sure, give people stronger property rights over their online data? Restrict software patents?

I am not sure I would want to stop any particular development but instead tweak the legal and economic framework around it. I think that many of our biggest issues stem from rapid pace of change and the culture is lagging in making healthy adaptations to those changes.

 

[Retros_x]

I am not sure you could, social media is a broad and not terribly precise terms. More precisely, what would have to happen to change the course of that part of social media so that it would not develop in the way it has.

The whole premise of the thread is that we can do it. A magical wand, a genies wish. What would happen instead is an interesting fantasy though, how would the web developed without modern social media for example. Would be just frozen in time or would some other big change evolve anyway?

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

October 30th, 4004 BC. Right before Adam and Eve discover this "clothes" fancy new tech and are expelled from the Eden garden. It only went downhill from there.

While I wouldn't want to waste Genie Wish on it, really. If had to, because of a very specific genie, I'd probably choose 1800 and block oil extraction tech for going further. Not because of environmental concerns, really, but just because of the fun factor of having a wildly different progress development path to witness when going back to our time.

 

[trappedslider]

Wow, what a topic!
Great discussion for a debate.

wow...what a way to respond instead of ignoring it

The whole premise of the thread is that we can do it. A magical wand, a genies wish.

October 30th, 4004 BC. Right before Adam and Eve discover this "clothes" fancy new tech and are expelled from the Eden garden. It only went downhill from there.

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Just go back to the big bang in that case

While I wouldn't want to waste Genie Wish on it, really. If had to, because of a very specific genie, I'd probably choose 1800 and block oil extraction tech for going further.

steam punk ftw right?

 

[AnotherGuy]

wow...what a way to respond instead of ignoring it

I think it is a great topic because one has to decide at which point in time do the negatives (addiction, loss of work, ease of killing/destruction, pollution...etc) outweigh the positives (advances in medical field/transport/space exploration and everyday utilitarianism etc).
Given the previous century it is tough to argue that one accept the technology utilised to slaughter wholesale of peoples, although that has been going on for centuries - but the ease at which one could do it was devastating.
On the flip side SO many inventions were created around the same time that helped humanity, not least of which was the sanitary pad, so helping like 50% of the world's population.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

The premise of the thread is that the Genie can block selectively the advance of technological progress in a field. I understand it as possibly allowing say, vaccines to be at the current level even if we decided to block capillary surgery.

I considered blocking arms tech at an earlier level than today, but given that atomic weapons gave a lot of us a long period of peace, I think it would be worse if we had constant WWI warfare ongoing... Or maybe block armaments at the rock-throwing level. Though I fear I'd be back to read the long account of people biting other soldiers to death in the trenches.

That would simplify D&D weapon table, as an added bonus.

 

[trappedslider]

The premise of the thread is that the Genie can block selectively the advance of technological progress in a field. I understand it as possibly allowing say, vaccines to be at the current level even if we decided to block capillary surgery.

This is how I meant it.