I think it did change me yes, it made me grow in a way i wouldn’t otherwise. Helped me with my emotions and empathy in a way i wouldn’t have found around me.
And that’s the thing, making communication or information easier to get also forces you into discovery. Laziness, at least in that regard, is well anchored in our nature too. I could have learn though books or teachers, but there’s plenty i’m pretty sure i wouldn’t have.
An ironic example is programming, if i only had the programming course i’ve had in the first year of college i probably wouldn’t have learned much, it was boring as hell. But i learned programming by myself the summer before, with a c++ tutorial and the intent on creating 2d games. And that was extremely fun for me, to the point i took more courses on the topic later on for my own studies in maths.
Yeah i really can’t bring myself to understand what it was like back when drive where 10mb or less. Any software now is so much bigger it’s crazy. Latest thing i remember is downloading film with torrent and how slow that was. I’m pretty sure my 4G is faster almost in the same order of magnitude.
Being lazy is fine. Conservation of energy is a default in life per se 😁
But i hear you…it changed you. Because tech-level reached your laziness-level and allowed you to do stuff you wouldn’t have.
Sure, it’s so damn easy nowadays. You can learn whatever you want (nearly) at (mostly) no cost even. And it’s also more fun.
I was one of the first in my highschool to learn “information technology”. By a teacher who knew nothing. I noticed, because i already knew everything. It was embarrassing. Now we have the net.
Downloading lol… I still am amazed by my gigabit-cable. I started with a modem, where i waited a minute for a tit-pic to download line by line 😁
But you’re better off, you started early enough to have the feeling of wonder, but old enough to see beyond AI. Whatever will come.
Oh, especially in games i actually don’t expect much. Except another kind of “single-player”-games that totally need to be always online due to AI. As our machines can’t handle the AI on top of the game itself. Also it would be a real challenge to give it “ai” and also kinda restrict it to a given ruleset/theme/boundaries/etc.
Like an NPC using ai. What does he know? Also it would be pretty immersion-killing if you’d ask him something and then it would take 1-3s for an answer. Like those incredibly stupid alexas.
Guess we’re maybe just way too far away from an actual and usable integration
I think it did change me yes, it made me grow in a way i wouldn’t otherwise. Helped me with my emotions and empathy in a way i wouldn’t have found around me.
And that’s the thing, making communication or information easier to get also forces you into discovery. Laziness, at least in that regard, is well anchored in our nature too. I could have learn though books or teachers, but there’s plenty i’m pretty sure i wouldn’t have.
An ironic example is programming, if i only had the programming course i’ve had in the first year of college i probably wouldn’t have learned much, it was boring as hell. But i learned programming by myself the summer before, with a c++ tutorial and the intent on creating 2d games. And that was extremely fun for me, to the point i took more courses on the topic later on for my own studies in maths.
Yeah i really can’t bring myself to understand what it was like back when drive where 10mb or less. Any software now is so much bigger it’s crazy. Latest thing i remember is downloading film with torrent and how slow that was. I’m pretty sure my 4G is faster almost in the same order of magnitude.
Being lazy is fine. Conservation of energy is a default in life per se 😁
But i hear you…it changed you. Because tech-level reached your laziness-level and allowed you to do stuff you wouldn’t have. Sure, it’s so damn easy nowadays. You can learn whatever you want (nearly) at (mostly) no cost even. And it’s also more fun.
I was one of the first in my highschool to learn “information technology”. By a teacher who knew nothing. I noticed, because i already knew everything. It was embarrassing. Now we have the net.
Downloading lol… I still am amazed by my gigabit-cable. I started with a modem, where i waited a minute for a tit-pic to download line by line 😁 But you’re better off, you started early enough to have the feeling of wonder, but old enough to see beyond AI. Whatever will come.
Yeah, the net is really a good way to learn about IT and most things related, the amount of good sources makes it really easy to just self-teach.
I often found it easier than to rely on finding a good teacher. Some lectures or materials from prestigious schools are even online.
Your right the future seems to hold some golden technology still. I’m really waiting to see how AI will be implemented in games for example.
Oh, especially in games i actually don’t expect much. Except another kind of “single-player”-games that totally need to be always online due to AI. As our machines can’t handle the AI on top of the game itself. Also it would be a real challenge to give it “ai” and also kinda restrict it to a given ruleset/theme/boundaries/etc. Like an NPC using ai. What does he know? Also it would be pretty immersion-killing if you’d ask him something and then it would take 1-3s for an answer. Like those incredibly stupid alexas. Guess we’re maybe just way too far away from an actual and usable integration