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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/31/22 00:41, Abraham Y. Chen
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font size="4">2) To follow what you
are saying, I wonder how could we think "out of the box" or go
"back to the future", before it is too late for our world wide
communications infrastructure to serve as a reliable daily
tool without being a distraction constantly?</font></div>
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<font size="4">At the risk of being severely off-topic, this is an
existential question that talks to the burden of priviledge. <br>
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Current society has such technological advancement, famine,
drought and war are not top-of-mind for most people (even if these
issues are for many), compared to millennia gone by.<br>
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The difficulty with modern-day priviledge is that many people
cannot answer the "why" to our existence, because there is simply
easy and abundant access to information, with comfort, that leaves
so many without direction until much later in life. In millennia
gone by, your purpose in life was to survive war, find food, find
water, and keep your kin alive. The world is, for the most part,
too comfortable for that, nowadays.<br>
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All that leads to is the "constant distraction" that we see today,
more so with the kids, but also with many adults. The very thing
that has propelled society in many useful ways, is also what is
likely going to set us back a tad.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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