With adapting, the important question is what happens if you don’t. If it only means you will miss out some fun, I don’t mind. Kids these days use Instagram and TikTok, I… don’t really understand the allure of that, so I stay away. I may change my mind in future, so it feels like I am choosing between two good things: the convenience of ignoring the new stuff, and the possible advantages of learning it.
It is different when the failure to adapt will make your life actively worse. Like people today who are old but not retired yet, who made the choice to ignore all that computer stuff, and now they can’t get a job. Or the peasants during the industrial revolution who made a bet that “people will always need some food, so my job is safe, regardless of all this new stuff”, and then someone powerful just took their fields and built a factory there, and let them starve to death (because they couldn’t get a job in that factory).
If the future will have all the problems solved, including the problem of “how can I get food and healthcare in a society where a robot can do literally anything much better and cheaper than me”, then… I will find a hobby; I never had a problem with that.
(I really hope the solution will not be “create stressful bullshit jobs”.)
A separate question is whether I can survive the point that is halfway between “here” and “there”.
With adapting, the important question is what happens if you don’t. If it only means you will miss out some fun, I don’t mind. Kids these days use Instagram and TikTok, I… don’t really understand the allure of that, so I stay away. I may change my mind in future, so it feels like I am choosing between two good things: the convenience of ignoring the new stuff, and the possible advantages of learning it.
It is different when the failure to adapt will make your life actively worse. Like people today who are old but not retired yet, who made the choice to ignore all that computer stuff, and now they can’t get a job. Or the peasants during the industrial revolution who made a bet that “people will always need some food, so my job is safe, regardless of all this new stuff”, and then someone powerful just took their fields and built a factory there, and let them starve to death (because they couldn’t get a job in that factory).
If the future will have all the problems solved, including the problem of “how can I get food and healthcare in a society where a robot can do literally anything much better and cheaper than me”, then… I will find a hobby; I never had a problem with that.
(I really hope the solution will not be “create stressful bullshit jobs”.)
A separate question is whether I can survive the point that is halfway between “here” and “there”.