GADGETS AND DIGITALIZATION - FOR THE DUMMY AND THE BADGETS

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

A popular American newspaper “blows the brain” of the average Russian liberal and technocrat by publishing an article that the current “digital learning”, like the rest of digitalization, is the lot of a society of beggars. It turns out that the rich in the United States refuse not just from the services of the "digital economy", but from smartphones, social networks, online shopping, and even more so schools that use gadgets.

Where the hyped digitalization of everyone and everything really leads can be seen in the BBC films about the not-so-distant future in 2039. There, for "progress" was presented a life in which there is no place for your family, your own home and feelings. Everyone lives in a hostel, eats artificial food and insect products, and is perverted in the virtual world. More precisely, not all, but the "average inhabitant" who will be lowered to the level of a slave or "one working unit." In that material, we assumed that digitalization would not affect its main lobbyists - the world oligarchy. And now, clear proof in the form of a large article from the New York Times.

While our homegrown Grefs say that living in virtual is progressive and necessary, rich Americans, that is, most of the rich in the world, refuse it:

“They want their kids to play with their peers, and private, expensive schools without technology thrive. Rich people are willing and able to pay for them. Visible human interaction - living without a phone during the day, exiting social media - has become a status symbol. The more monitors appear in the lives of the poor, the more they disappear from the lives of the rich. The richer you are, the more you spend to be behind the scenes. The chief executive officer of the Luxury Institute, Milton Pedraza, who advises companies on how the wealthiest want to live and spend, has found that the rich want to spend on something human. According to research by his company, estimated spending on activities such as leisure and food outstrips spending on goods, and he sees this as a direct response to the spread of the digital. “Now education, health care institutions, everyone is starting to look at what is done by man. The person is very important now,”said Mr. Pedraza.

“The pagers were important because they were a signal that you were an important, busy person,” said Joseph Nunes, chairman of marketing at the University of Southern California, who specializes in status marketing. Today, he said, the opposite is true: “If you are truly at the top of the hierarchy, you do not need to answer to anyone. They must answer you. Rich people can afford to give up their data and their attention being sold as a product. The poor and middle class don't have the same resources,”the New York Times continues.

Imagine, it turns out that today in the United States, an iPhone is a sign of a rogue. And everything that we are persuaded to give up is like a "scoop" remnants - schools where children learn from good teachers, hospitals where professional doctors treat, even organizing a banal merry wedding with live guests in the same Hollywood and among the rest of the American rich now things are extremely status. A discovery that for our stars and those who are chasing "status" is like a brain explosion. Moreover, the journalists further explain that the rejection of any virtuality - from social networks and smartphones to the use of gadgets in education - is far from being a whim of any Rockefellers, but the only way to get smart and adequate heirs.

“Early results from the National Institutes of Health's landmark study on brain development among 11,000 children showed that those who spend more than two hours a day sitting in front of screens scored lower in thinking than those reading books. Most alarmingly, research finds that the brains of children who spend a lot of time watching screens and reading books are different. Some children have "numbers" premature thinning of the cerebral cortex. In adults, one study found a link between time spent on gadgets and depression.

The use of gadgets was opposed by the leading author of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the leading pediatrician at the Children's Hospital of Seattle, Dimitri Kristakis, who said that a kid who learns to build with virtual cubes in an iPad simply cannot do the same with real cubes.

Tech companies have worked hard (lobbied) to get public schools to implement programs that required one laptop per student, claiming they could better prepare kids for their digital future. But the idea is how people who are implementing the future based on "numbers" are raising their own children by abandoning it.

In small towns around Wichita, where school budgets were so cut that the state Supreme Court ruled that they were inadequate, teachers and classroom aids were replaced with software, and students spent most of the school day silently on their laptop. (The same is being prepared for Russian children by the Digital School lobbyists from Skolkovo, ASI and the Higher School of Economics-RIA Katyusha) And at this time in Silicon Valley, screen time is increasingly viewed as unhealthy. One of the most popular primary schools there is the local Waldorf School, which promises to go back to basics by introducing an almost classical education. As a result, it turns out that while rich children grow up with less time with gadgets, poor children turn to them more and more often,”reports the New York Times.

There is even nothing special to comment on here. In fact, we have a situation where the very owners of information giants who pay for the introduction of more and more gadgets in education and contribute to the stupefaction of the population addicted to their services, like drugs, send their youths to normal schools without a "number" and for not small money. Moreover, it was not said here about drugs by chance. “The poor and middle class are told that gadgets are good and important to them and their children. To do this, high-tech companies employ psychologists and neuroscientists at the rates, whose task is to rivet their eyes and minds to the screens of gadgets as quickly and for as long as possible … “People run to what they know - to screens. It's like getting away to fast food,”said Sherri Turkle, professor of social science research and technology at MIT. And just as giving up fast food is harder when it is the only restaurant available in town, ditching gadgets is much more difficult for the poor and middle class. Even if someone decides to live offline, this is often not possible. Parents of public school students may not want their children to study with a gadget in hand, but this is not an option when many classrooms are now built on one-to-one laptop programs. There is also the reality that in our culture of growing isolation, in which so many traditional gathering places and social structures have disappeared, gadgets are already filling a crucial void,”add American journalists.

We remind you that this is not a text by conspiracy theorists, which tells about the construction of a new society of slaves under the control of the "big brother". This is a respectable and extremely tolerant New York Times, which quite officially says that yes - indeed in IT companies they know that people get stupid from their products, moreover, they keep a whole staff of employees who should make the population stupid even faster, and therefore their They keep their children from "innovations" as far as possible. And they themselves prefer to buy things in stores rather than on the Internet, go to the doctors, and not use remote assistance and eat in a good restaurant, and not order fast food through the network.

And here we return to the videos from the Air Force, which show people who are not particularly gifted and living in Spartan conditions from 2039 - that is, those who are 5-10 years old today. It is they, the "rogue" learned by the new rules at school with gadgets, who have gone to social networks and will become the main "labor resources", and simply slaves of those who teach children in classical schools and treat them in normal hospitals. Moreover, the classic slaves who will have shelter, some kind of food from grasshoppers and refined oil and clothing. Only instead of a stigma, they will have an identification number, instead of chains, they will be given gadgets, and instead of an overseer, the notorious artificial intelligence. And this future is already coming not only in the States and in the West, but also in Russia.