The Futility of Advancing Technology
As humanity entrenches itself further and further into the digital age, many people have raised important concerns about its implications.
The logo of a videogame prominently featured in the article. Stewart Green for The Wizdid Tribune
By Kevin Tang
Published Feb. 5, 2024
"Wizdid! You're garbage!" yells a teammate as Brandon Tran loses another clutch in Valorant. Most of those interactions take place online. And many of these people that yell at Brandon and associate with him don't see the sunlight, much less touch grass. He is the paradigm and the model of the future interactions.
Others like him, such as Seung Hoon Lee, Kevin Lyu and Michael Olakkengil, share a common trait of investing more in mental endeavors than in physical ones. Thanks to these individuals, I have lost hope in the future. These are League of Legends players, Alex Woos, and PDFs. The virtual world hosts a cesspool of degeneracy and I'm not prepared for it. In the near future, I will separate myself from the rest of society residing into the woods and adopting more primal homo sapien tendencies in the Redwood Forests of California.
If Voltaire couldn't help but be impressed by Newton three-quarters of a century after the fact, one can only imagine how impressed Newton's contemporaries would have been if they had read Newton's work.
I hope that bright individuals of the present can recognize and resonate with my stance. We may not last another three-quarters of a century. Type "1" if you understand.