There’s no question about it, technology has changed the world. Imagining my day-to-day without a mobile phone is enough to give me the nervous sweats, so thinking of life without transport, electricity and the ability to stalk my ex on social media sends me into meltdown mode.
But just as technology giveth, technology taketh away.
Mainly, it takes away our brain cells. Point in case, this dude:
Absolutely shaken by the way this man on Muni is wearing his AirPods pic.twitter.com/Dt57QuzDu5
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) June 1, 2019
Forget about the fact that he’s wearing the earphones UPSIDE DOWN (???), there is no way that any normal functioning human being would get frosted tips in 2019 and wear sunglasses on the back of their head in public like it’s no big deal.
Unless the dude’s a complete douche, but I don’t like judging people’s personality when I don’t know them (unless you’re the new girlfriend of the ex i’m stalking on social media). So I’m running with my ’Apple AirPods rot our brains’ theory.
one airpod in, all brain cells out.
— CESÃRITO SKYWALKER (@MagicCornFlakes) December 17, 2018
If one guy isnt’ enough to convince you that technology is both helping and ruining us, then maybe these people will change your mind.
This chick who put her trust in her navigator and was BETRAYED:
Woman following GPS ends up in a 100-foot-deep lake https://t.co/hq6b5QgbKU pic.twitter.com/vEIRlkEQ1m
— CNET (@CNET) May 15, 2016
And this person who loved their car so much they decided to give it a makeover:
…why?
Gotta love cacti in your face when the airbag deploys.
Kristen Stewart, where you at?
Google auto-complete utilises some of the most revolutionary technology. Like…it knows what you’re thinking. But even the best of the best technology out there can be infiltrated by stupidity.
Ask that again but slower.
No part of Google is safe.
What kind of parks are you going to?
So yeah, technology is great and all but it’s definitely making us stupider.
At least we have Netflix. Netflix makes everything okay.