MegaRant About The Future Of Humanity
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I think it’s less the phone that’s the problem so much as engagement-based social media and the preponderance of people thinking that Google is ground truth for reality. And yeah, it’s super frustrating, especially with how short the collective memory and attention span are. People don’t remember life before TH-cam and Twitter and Facebook, and humanity in general has forgotten a lot about how to learn and discover things.
When it comes to The Phones, I say “don’t blame the tools, blame the fools.”
It's like giving gun to idiots, it won't end well.
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Exactly, and the folks are seeming to get foolier everyday. Schools gone to crap, kids just staring at screens all day. Seems we're on the burn hot and fast and die in a fiery ball of destruction trajectory
As a working mechanic, I find the phone to be an incredible tool at times. Indeed, it sits in my tool chest with all the other tools until needed.
Aside from that, phones are an interface to a scourge of parasites.
The thing I'm most worried about in the future is the short attention span. When I took mechanical engineering 25 years ago I remember trying to figure out really difficult concepts and needing to concentrate non stop for 2 to 3 hours at a time. If I was interrupted during this time, even for a moment, I would need at least 10 minutes to get back into that level of concentration again. If I had had a smart phone back then that was interrupting me every 2 to 3 minutes I don't see how I could have ever attained that level of concentration. I also think this relates to the belief in conspiracy theories. Science is hard (I know because engineering is a branch of science, in fact my degree is a Bachelor of Science in Engineering). Understanding scientific discoveries is difficult work that often leaves people feeling confused and stupid ( I often felt this way in engineering). Conspiracy theories, on the other hand, are easy to understand because they are created specifically to attract people. They make figuring out things really easy and require very little mental effort. When the theory bumps into reality then you just say reality is fake and the purveyors of reality are just saying that to confuse you, and you know the real truth. This makes people feel smart when in fact they aren't. You can see why it is more attractive than science for a lot of people. Scientists, at least in their purest form, are interested in discovering actual truth and are not worried about feeling smart. They are willing to put the work in, fail, put more work in, fail again, maybe feel stupid and get discouraged, pull them selves out of that and repeat this process until they make an, often times small, contribution to our overall understanding of everything around us. Like Fran, I have had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge my entire life. I think you are born with it. I think people will continue to be born with it and they will have to find ways to follow this path in an increasingly distracting world. I hope they can master that. Ken
I'm 21 and I study mechanical engineering in the 2nd semester and yes it's getting harder and harder for ppl to focus and finding actually smart ppl my age is getting harder and harder
I agree, short attention spam... ehem, i mean span xD, that's my way when i need to code some microcontroller or microprocessor, i do assembler mostly.
i spent like 3 to 4 hours drawing pinout, connections, registers, accumulators, stack, once everything is on my head and i have the idea very clear i sit down and code, non stop, i never stop, until i'm finished, well maybe i go to the head but that's it, phone in the other room, i disconnect the network on the PC, and i won't stop until im done.
that's the way it works for me, and allows me to code really really fast, because everything is on my head, every variable, every register, every flag, all of it.
dunno if "normal programmers do that" i do hehe, and of course if i grab my personal communicator during that time i will get seriously distracted, and some of the info in my head goes away and i'm screwed, so no comms during coding xD
I totally agree with you. I hope that the new generations, because they are already born with these technologies, will use them in a smart way. On the other hand, there will be available even more disruptive one, like VR/AR, AI, etc. Imagine when we will be able to fuse with machines. I guess that this will solve the “distraction” problem caused by “smart” phones...
I think because I could do mentally so much so quickly anything that took me time I really hated , if I could not do it or understand it right first time I was not interested, thinking I was a failure.
@@3SPR1T Be the solution. This crazy time will pass. The bad guys are getting caught and we have a positive vision of the future to manifest. Don't compromise your ideals or waste your energy. Leave the ignorant to deal with and learn from their own consciences and negative outcomes, that's their path, just not mine, I have several projects to focus on completing.
I stood across the bay and watched Apollo 13 Saturn 5 launch. There was no CGI.
I remember the company lunchroom, years ago people would sit around, eat food and talk about lot's of things. Sharing ideas and experiences. Now the lunch room is quiet as a church mouse, everyone eats food and scroll through their phones in complete silence. Just another example of how society is breaking down.
It's a shame see the same thing at restaurants
It's pretty sad, a step back in evolution for humanity. I really hope this is just a fad, although looking around right now, if it is a fad, it's a very persistent one.
"We have members from around the globe" - the flat earthers.
"Idiocracy" was no bad comedy movie, it was a warning!
kinda like trumpeez.
What flat earther's tend to ignore is that millions of people witnessed the Saturn V's taking off with their own eyes. The watched, and the felt, a vehicle that weighed over 6 million pounds take off from the pad, and then steer itself on it's course. Getting a vehicle of that size and weight to actually fly without blowing itself to bits was by far the biggest challenge that the engineers of the day had to overcome. Amateur radio geeks and astronomers also tracked the vehicles whilst they were in space. People the world over did this. And that included tracking the signals coming from the moon and also lunar orbit. It really does sadden, and annoy me that these conspiracy nuts simply refuse to do the slightest bit of research on how the whole space program worked. And of course the radiation belts - yes they are real, but they are shaped, and they vary in strength. Just a little bit of research will explain just how Apollo dealt with the issue. But like so many of the conspiracy nuts, they simply cannot stand the thought of reading or learning about something if it goes against their own misguided beliefs.
I checked out a few flat earth channels and you'd be surprised how much money 💰 they're taking in donations claiming that the money will used to prove the earth is flat. 🤑 💵
What she said^^^ In about 2011, I was having dinner with my VP Engineering and our COO (at the time), in Mountain View. Our VP started a conversation about FaceBook. She said that people were hyperventilating about it. I reminded her of what Richard Stallman had said about it... 'immature technology made by immature people for immature people.'. What happened next was stunning to me. Our COO had a meltdown, he said 'that's my grandkids, that's how I see them', and they both piled on. It was clear to anyone who wanted to be objective what these technologies would lead to, but they didn't want to be objective. And here we are.
Wow. I'll have to pass this story along. I've always wondered what causes people's objectivity to break when it comes to things they supposedly care about; wouldn't you want to be hyper-objective when it's your grandchildren's wellbeing on the line??? Smh
NASA is starting a new program: "Search for terrestrial intelligence"
Most of the time the result will be 404!
Setting the Wayback Machine to the summer of 1976, I was a teenager in rural Kentucky.
The Viking Mars lander was in the news. I got the address of NASA from the school library, and wrote to them about the Viking mission. Would've been happy to have gotten a poster and flyers.
A few weeks later, I got a big box of stuff from NASA ..books, posters, souvenirs...all sorts of stuff.
For genuine weirdness, combine alcoholism and religion. I had a few relatives like this...they weren't alcoholics because they just drank wine, and they drank wine in the Bible, so it was OK.
Some impressively weird world views... entertaining in many ways.
Wait until there are direct neural implants....
Love you! Thank you for calling them out!
As someone who helped bring the Internet to fruition I am saddened by what social media and "computers for everyone" has done. Social media has focused the power of stupid like a laser. And the free access of computers by the stupid has given them the delusion that they are actually smart. It's horrifying.
This is what happens when everyone on Earth is given their own, world reaching megaphone. Most don't yet fully understand that it's also a knife that cuts either way and that factually true speech is the only free speech. False speech is not constitutionally protected and certainly not free, as Alex Jones is learning and millions of others will learn about. So screw them, get back to creating.
We've discovered the hard way that information does not equal intelligence
@@delta-9969 not all information is useful information, hence the stupid have a lot of useless information
“focused the power of stupid like a laser”. Brilliant comment!
Al Gore? Is that you?
"Cuz I'm such a genius" I laughed so hard. I am right with you Fran. It is all very worrisome. I think the only way we can save even a portion of the people who have lost themselves in their phones, is for it to be trendy and cool somehow. A movement, to not live in your phone. There will always be those who never want to learn anymore than they already think they know. Fran, I think you get extra exposure to the flat earthers. Those who understand science and live to learn are not going to pounce to comment. We are all still out here. I really enjoy hearing your views and thoughts.
I met a number of conspiracy theorists before the advent of social media (and I do think it's social media rather than smartphones per se, the whole "we have a device in our pockets that gives us access to the sum of human knowledge" is really powerful if we can keep away from the crazies and con artists), so I don't think social media started it, and some of the amplification was happening before social media was corporatised and money-driven (ie IRC, Usenet). What commercial social media has done is amplify it, and make social media something that divides us rather than bringing us together
With a newspaper or journal I could see on a page lots of different things, I could focus on what I wanted, or be destracted by other things. But websites are much more linear - at least on smartphones , I am very limited in the display of information, entertainment or advertisment as a whole.
The "echo chamber" effect has been greatly accelerated by technology, including devices, apps and communications. Joining a community has been made trivially simple, and many trivially simple communities have resulted, where the desire to join some flavor of "groupthink" or "identity" rises to incredible levels.
The recent extreme US political polarization tore into my own family, circles of friends and work associates. People I like and love angrily reacting to political issues to the point of rage, emotions completely overriding all reason. This forced me to move to the center merely to highlight such extreme reactions and attempt to moderate them. Seldom with any success, but I choose to soldier on.
You don't even need to join anything anymore to create an effective personal echo chamber - the algorithms catered to show you more of a thing you already clicked on do it automatically for you. One employee of Google also admitted that part of the algorithm for youtube also deliberately shows you things it damn well knows will upset you because uproar causes even more clicks and interaction than content viewers.
Faith in science turns into faith in that there is no science at all.
Thank you for your words
Denialism mostly happens with people who "check out" of reality they can't comprehend or handle any more - if something is too scary or too complicated for them they just deny it: "me no understand/like reality, therefore erf flat"
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke
The radiation belt is one of my favorite ones. They act like the radiation belt is some kind of impenetrable barrier that instantly fries anything and everything that passes through it. Of course they completely ignore the shielding provided by the capsule, the speed of transiting through the belt, and if I'm not mistaken by a slightly inclined path through the belt avoiding the densest parts.
Many of these people do not believe that there are any artificial satellites in orbit. But that does not stop them from screaming that we could not have gone to the Moon because of the Van Allen Belts. Ironically, the "Van Allen Belts" were discovered by Explorer 1, the very first satellite the Us successfully launched in 1958.
Remember HG Wells' Time Machine? The Eloi (facebookers) became food for the Morlocks (techies).
It's a shame I can only give this video one like. Thanks for keeping real Fran.
Hear hear!
I'd blame Zuckerberg a hell of a lot more than Jobbs. Pocket supercomputers are great tools if you use them properly.
Just like navigation systems. Too many turn off their human brains when using these tools.
Jobs didn't invent the smartphone and it would have become popular eventually without him. What he did invent was an effective but evil monetization scheme that separates people into a large group of powerless users and a tiny elite of techno-priests.
I tend to avoid the facebook part of the world, mostly as it gives stuff that is so NOT of interest to me, takes up too much time, but it does seem to have a monopoly of ways of connecting people that Google, Microsoft cannot even manage to achieve.
Jobs*
What should we expect when innovation moves faster than regulation? These companies are creating policies perhaps that are obviously geared more for profitability, understandable but not always in the best interests of the public.
53 years since entire primary school sat in corridors facing a single 26 inch black and white tv to watch moon landings.
I'm gonna be 60 this year and grew up analog yet became tech savvy during my adolescence. I lived through the post Apollo era and basked in the heady space based science zeitgeist of the 70s and spent countless hours hours building scale models and stargazing with a gifted 3" Edmund Reflector scope. Though initially enamored with video gaming I was done with that phase by the early 80s and turned to surfing dialup BBSs on my Atari 800XL in 83. By then I had embarked on an Aviation track after having obtained my FAA A&P license in 82 then my Private Pilot ticket 2 years after. Almost 40 years later, I have 2 kids in college and one still in HS. Sadly, all are fully indoctrinated into the smartphone driven pre-Idiocracy world of today and I truly regret that. Despite your assertions, I am fully convinced that this downward intellectual spiral was not a result of random unbridled commerce but from a deliberate decades long MIC, WEF, Davos, Bildeberg fueled technocratic agenda that led to national curriculum dilution, corporate led media consolidation and the inevitable atrophy and erosion of intellect and critical thinking skills while fostering wanton consumerism. Like George Carlin said, 'The table is tilted folks, the game is rigged and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care'. That said, your sorrows and fears are well founded Fran.
Great comment, mate.
And spot on!
I'm going to be 60 in December and I was a nerdy kid too. George Carlin was right about a lot of things. He would be saying told ya so these days.
So who is it do you believe is making all the progress in tech today? There aren't labs full of gray beards where anyone under 30 isn't allowed because they grew up with a phone in their pocket. Just like there were idiots and smart people 100 years ago the same goes for today. Some kids are using their smartphones hooked up to telescopes to do a much more advanced version of what you did as a kid. They aren't simply idiot rectangles. The issue is with the users, not the tech. The majority of people are dumb so the majority of people don't use their phones to their full potential. That doesn't mean there aren't super smart fuckers out there doing shit with their smartphone that I couldn't imagine. There are just less smart people and that is true for every generation going back to the first. This same idea is parroted by literally every generation since time immemorial. "The youth is ruining the world and it is because they use a different form of technology than I did when I was a youth." People are the problem.
my 75 yr old sister once remarked "I'm glad I'm on my way out instead of on my way in" she's right.
That’s no way to think. No way.
love it, thnx.
Humanity was not ready for the Internet. It still isn't.
I had looked at my iPhone as an extension of my brain's ram, which seems to fail more and more lately. It is very addictive. You have to have enough intelligence to determine what information you believe. I'm not sure how grey you are, but I suspect we both grew up in the 60s and 70s without computers, mobile phones and internet. It is amazing what time we live in. We lived through building our very crude computers in the early 80s and building our own acoustic modem just to hook with a friend on the other side of town to type "Can you see this" - lol.
"The phone has made people who are not intelligent think that they're geniuses."
This quote sums up everything wrong with the world. Probably the wisest words ever said on TH-cam. Thank you Fran.
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there are a couple major problems with modern society, which give me exceptional worry:
1) too many stupid people survive to adulthood. back in the day, stupid people got run over by tractors on the farm, or fell off their house, or a million other ways people who weren't careful used to die, but because of medical science, and modern transport and communications, and efforts of many people coordinated together, almost everyone survives and reproduces. further exacerbating the problems, stupid people generally reproduce at a higher rate, so it's like "idiocracy" is becoming a documentary.
2) the internet, while it has immensely helped society for the good, it has on the whole been bad for society, because it empowers stupidity and antisocial individuals. it used to be, if you were a crackpot you had to go to some big city, stand on a corner and rant at passerby, who ignored you...but with the internet any idiot can have a utoob channel and find 50K equally-idiotic people to band-together and generate way more noise and societal churn than their actual numbers in total, and that's extremely dangerous actually.
Fran, you are awesome on so many levels. Critical thinking is essential for the human race to avoid extinction. It’s as simple as that.
My own "critical thinking", which perhaps is actually simple thinking, is that human beings have no business trying to colonize other planets unless and until we can change how we conduct ourselves on this planet. Greed and rapaciousness will serve us even less well on the Moon, Mars and elsewhere than it does here at home.
The ones fixated on that illusion usually win the Darwin award.
Critical thinking is the answer, many know that. Some just simply don't care.
I've noticed myself if I watch TH-cam video for to long my attention span for watching a movie is unbelievably bad that I have to force myself to watch the movie. Now I read a book every night to get my attention span back.
Thank God for Fran and her rants. Stay strong, Fran and keep "telling it like it is". This brings to mind the people who said that the moon landing was fake and done in a tv studio. Remember that one? It's is bad now with those people who say Trump won the election. Rant on, Fran. Rant on. We need more people like you.
A good rant is good for the soul
Remember when people thought a virus waits as you eat or drink? I do
I wish he did win.
Loved this video so so much and explains all of my current disdain for social media. I'm from "Generation Z", taking up my bachelors in mechatronics soon.
One thing I can say is that there are plenty of clever, intelligent, and inclusive young people I've met over the years, ranging from 12-39 years old.
I think idiots have always existed, the only difference now is that they have a platfrom to preach to. That they can sit in their echo chambers prattling on abour conspiracies and to have hundreds prattling back in reply.
Access to the internet/computers allowed me to break into the field of programming, tech, etc at a young age, and I know many more who were the same-- and we're all thankful for that.
However, there are also its dark sides. I remember being taught in early high school computer class how to navigate toxic social media, determine fake news, even how to deal with sexual predators online.
I always thought that was the answer here. To educate kids on how to deal with this massive, horrible, wonderful thing we call the internet.
"inclusive" lol whatever
Science and technology has become so advanced that the normal person has no idea how things like the internet works. It’s way easier to deny than to work to understand and learn.
Hell, I still can't wrap my head around how telephones work.
@@MattTee1975 I know right? Everything is super complicated. Making a simple phone call to your next door neighbor involves fiber optics, computer data centers etc…
This video from Fran is the most important video you will ever watch. I wish that it got televised nationwide in every nation everywhere. It's about Common Sense - which sadly is far too uncommon these days.
It would have to be broadcast to all the friggin phones to work :)
To paraphrase Einstein, common sense is just a bunch of preconceived ideas.
Hi Fran, I am a bit older than you but I remember my dad waking me up in the middle of the night ( I'm in Scotland) and watching the Eagle landing, if that was CGI it was bloody awful quality!!
Still one of my best childhood memories though.
Keep up the brilliant work..
I remember staying up to watch the Moon landing, drinking coffee so I didn't fall asleep and miss it.
I worked with a low IQ person who thought the earth was in a dome🤣 I stayed away from him.
Wasn't the Matrix a documentary? LOL
Idiocracy is real, the more you try to show them the more they think its fake, religion is an apt description.
Those who deny history are doomed to repeat it.
There have ALWAYS been irrational screaming lunatics out there. The only thing that changed is that the internet has given them a megaphone that covers the whole world. When the millennials finally grow up, things will calm down, though they're sure taking their time.
I'm glad I have a professional job and I live in a big city. I forget how insulating that is sometimes though. I get to help scientists and engineers use amazing computer systems to make new things. Things that exist in the real world and make people's lives better rather than exist just on their phones and make their lives worse. It's really a privilege, but that's easy to forget. We're out there learning and building every day and we watch and appreciate your channel.
The 'metaverse' is the Warp from Warhammer 40k: an endless swirling sea of base emotions and reactions of millions and our devices are little portals into this.
Hi Ran, I caught this live but it was worth listening to again. You are spot on with your observations about the future of this planet we call Earth.
Keep going and don't let the b@st@rds grind you down 👍
Skylab re entered the atmosphere in 1978 here in south western Australia. Just recently (9 July) we were treated with some tasty bits of SPACEX Dragons trunk that re entered in south eastern NSW. No sheep were hurt luckily. I love your videos Fran. Thank you.
Funny to meet another SW Aussie here 😉
@@Design_no hi, Melbourne here.
@@peterarmstrong8613 r ok, Skylab not far from me.
@@Design_no far out, just last night I saw a TH-cam by ABC tv of the news in history on Skylab. You must see it. Covers the first reports of bright meteor’s and sonic booms at 2.30am W A time to the finding of the bits of spacecraft. You might see your mates! I’m 63, how old were you when it came down?
I came to a realization in my early teens some 30 years ago. That at some point in the future, if we weren't wiped out from a natural disaster, humanity would most likely take a step backwards. If we survived this self made step-back, we would most likely go on to achieve great things. I was really hoping that I would have been long gone before this backslide began.
The Zombie Apocalypse has already happened!
You can talk all you like Fran... but the're only a few that can hear.
It isn’t so much that ignorance is increasing. In fact, those alive today are more educated than any generation that has come before them. You said it yourself Fran, it’s much more that the ignorant’s access to communication technology has increased so that they are able to espouse their viewpoints freely. In recent times, they have always been a minority of people. But they’re a minority that are easily manipulated. It’s this manipulation in such a grande and encompassing manner that’s new.
It is the corporate and global elite, the rich and greedy, that are the ones that influence people in this way. They view clear and scientific thinking as a threat to their wealth and power. Save your anger and frustration for them. The ignorant know not what they do. They don’t have the awareness to see anywhere near the full picture. In some ways they are victims in this just as much as we are.
What I think is a danger, is that between a media establishment that provides entirely negative news and governmental structures that sow fear and division, we the educated give in to apathy. That we allow our view to be coloured by their propaganda. That we allow disillusionment to stay our hand in any meaningful change that we might create.
I make a point of balancing the negatives with the positive to provide myself with a rounded picture of what’s really occurring. As examples. Many previous dictatorships are now functioning democracies. Famine by and large has been reduced to its lowest ever levels. Human rights, whilst still not ubiquitous, cover more human beings than they ever have. Children’s education is more widespread than it has ever been. Women’s rights on the whole have shifted more towards equality than away from it. LGBT rights, whilst at the beginning of transformation, are also moving in a positive direction.
Despite all of this, I understand it is frustrating. With the greedy often sociopathic people in charge, it is often a very slow and hard fought process.
But, please Fran don’t allow the manipulators to colour your optimism. We need open minds like yours to fight the good fight and act as bastions of clear scientific and evidence based thinking. It’s videos like yours that change minds. We need you to have hope in all of us. Most people are good and well meaning. It’s just that some of us can get a little lost along the way. I truly believe the work you do is helping people to find themselves again. So please, don’t allow that vocal minority to change who you are. You are a special lady, keep going!
When phones were tied to the wall, people were free, now we, are tied to our phones. I forget who said this, but is so true.
I was recently thinking about how toxic social media in general tends to be. I just quit Twitter, which was the last social media service I still used. The constant dis/misinformation, drama, celebrity worship, callouts, etc. got old. These were all things that existed before, but they only got worse since COVID started happening. I think people got too addicted to social media and had cabin fever or something. Anyway I'm getting too old for a lot of this stuff, so I just keep in touch with my friends via other means. It's better that way.
I wish I could get my wife to get about Facebook and Twitter. I keep telling her that you cannot use the platforms that are dividing us, for purposes of monetizing us, to building a better society.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. I know some really smart young people that really love to learn.
Smart people listen and don't talk much. You might want to start worrying if they start accusing you
of being a Witch and trying to burn you at the stake.
This trend was happening way before the “smart” phone. I recommend viewing a TV series called The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis. He has done wonderful things in the past.
I'm looking at the synopsis of that series now and it looks interesting; episode names for anyone else interested:
"Happiness Machines" (originally broadcast 17 March 2002)
"The Engineering of Consent" (originally broadcast 24 March 2002)
"There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads; He Must Be Destroyed" (originally broadcast 31 March 2002)
"Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering" (originally broadcast 7 April 2002)
I wonder if it is available to stream somewhere...
@@jasonyates3311 yes. He has done stuff much more recently.
That series is an excellent exposition of our postmodern predicament. I cannot recommend it enough.
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” - Goethe, 1826. Yes, Fran, we're screwed.
I think one of the reason some people believe there is 'a plan' is that they feel so powerless and overwhelmed that they rather believe that someone, anyone, has a plan. Even if it's some evil entity (or organization), rather than accepting that there is no 'plan'.
There is a mishmash of hundreds of millions of plans, competing, co-operating etc., with different goals and agendas.
Edit, I forgot words...
One of my sons was a flat earther but with my Diligence with his maturity he's no longer ignorant 👍
Fran, This is the best. You are so correct. I deal with this everyday.
We agree completely: phones have made most people substantially less aware to our detriment. Also, many have lost the ability to think objectively and indeed to balance an argument. It makes them 'easy pickings' .
"Is there any real proof, records that this stuff existed? Yes -- they're called books." (1:36) Priceless :)
I have pretty much lost faith in humanity... Still, my 18 and 21 year old sons feel the same, seeing blatant, willful ignorance on display daily. That they recognize such foolishness from others...well, that does give me hope.
The department chair in our physics department gets stuff from the crazies.
The willing ignorance drives me nuts.
Goo is a good word for it.
I'm lucky enough to have a piece of space lab in a piece of acrylic, it looks like a piece of burned fibreglass and it has a note of authenticity from NASA and all. Great video Fran 👍
My dad gave me a NASA publication when I was 11, “This New Ocean, the History of Project Mercury” published in 1966. But you’re right Fran, we are becoming surrounded by fruitcakes.
Bravo Fran: saying the things that too many of us have experienced of late.
Best rant ever Fran! Love this multidimensional FranLab, still looking forward to teardowns especially retro gear, but love the reflection on life equally as much
multidimensional fran
@@rsprockets7846 "I'm sorry Mario, but our Fran is in yet another vector space!"
In the 'a stopped clock is right twice a day department':
"Faith is something you believe that nobody in his right mind would believe' - Archie Bunker
I am a "young gen X'er" who's been influenced by other people's wisdom like yours most of my life (40+ years). I am very grateful but as you say 'round about now this gets extremely depressing at times: So I think we have to stick together. Something needs to change so that we are closer together, or not mentally so physically so far apart, if you know what I mean. The population has been so damaged we are few and far between... so we think!!! Gotta try stuff that hasn't been done in our lifetimes to make some of this better somehow. Lets look into how business practices destroy us with the 'bad medicine' that is most business and political influence. Looks like things will get worse before they get better. So we have to grab a hold of something. Multiple things. Talk to people. And organize meet-ups that arent for everyone... if the thing is going to hold together.
Wow, I had no idea about all that stuff when putting out a TH-cam video. You Go Fran.💪✌🙏🇺🇲💜
I don't think we can keep our standards of living we have now for anything past 2035-2040 because we will face much bigger issues than anything we had faced before.
I have a friend who likes to say 'Smart Phones are for Stupid People'.
I'm 62 and older than manned space flight and remember sitting on the family room floor watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set boot to the lunar regolith back in '69 on a janky B&W tv. It was one of the great moments in our history I was able to witness. To the deniers, I just sigh and shake my head and how certain they are in their willful ignorance. I have mixed hope in our future: Social media gives voice to people who ranted in obscurity before its invention. A mad idea that might have reached 2-3 dozen folks on a street corner now touches tens of thousands across the world wide web and the nonsense spreads like wildfire. Would we have Q-Anon and Christian Nationalism without our current near-universal ability to communicate?
Like any tool (Smart phones included) there are good and bad uses: A hammer can drive a nail to create shelter and useful things, and it can also bash your head in. It is not the technology, it is how we choose to use it.
I met Steve Jobs when he was near "end of life." He was a bitter, miserable person. I asked his caregiver if he was that way because of his situation? She said "nope, he's been a bitter prick for decades." That's sad really ...
Hello Fran! Can you plan to make a video on the display technology employed in the scope behind you? The great Tektronix storage tube :) when you have time. There is a lot of technical material available about it and you can demosntrate it, having a unit there behind you. :) love the channel Fran, Thank you!
It's not just phones, it's the Internet itself. The general population of "normal" people can not handle it. Tech used to be the realm of the small group of geeks and nerds. Critical thinkers. Nowadays every single human as easy access to this system. It's too much information and they lack the skills to process it. They need training.
I was taught critical thinking at middle school, we would take a newspaper and go through it , or a selection of papers and look at how they covered a specific story as starting points.
@@highpath4776 , We also need to be taught from an early age, probably beginning in grade school and onwards, anger-management and conflict-resolution techniques. It seems quite obvious that millions or hundreds of millions of people around the world are not learning this from their parents, extended families or neighbors.
What does Sunday school do to critical thinking I wonder.
@@anonymous.youtuber , religion is the ultimate in magical thinking, and Sunday School ( or any similarly regimented childhood religious instruction) the ultimate in indoctrination and social control.
Naturally selected Functional social control. What we have now is the opposite, and hardly "critical" in thought, mask off Sam Harris made that clear just the other day. The fashionable modern magical thinking is entirely off the reservation, and usually a Darwin award.
Thaks for the rant Fran. It struck a nerve. That NASA book stirred a memory. I remember visiting the U.S. Government Printing Office retail store as a kid.... I think it was in the JFK Federal building (but I may be mistaken - it WAS over a half century ago). Needless to say, they had a LOT of NASA stuff, since it was the mid to late 1960s. When I think of the amazing things I took for granted as a kid (like that 66 years after the very first heavier than air powered flight, we were walking on the moon!) I shake my head and try to sort out how we got from there ....to here....
I’m not a troll or someone who needs anything from you but I do appreciate your videos and your authenticity and your intelligence. I wouldn’t blame you for throwing in the towel but ill keep watching until you do. You rule.
The result of more people then ever being able to have their voice heard. Which can be a good thing. The thing is that it also includes the voices of people who lack critical thinking, are ignorant to science, chemistry and biology and simply go on hunches, beliefs or the one with the loudest voice. The solution is proper education - with higher education being available to people regardless of their background or financial situation. Learn how to debate how to agree to disagree and be courteous and respectful to the other.
Ban social media? The human condition... but possibly because we're more connected than ever before the downfall can be prevented....
Do I make the crazies worse? I am older (80 in two months) and have developed an essential tremor. Which showed around age 60, and now have a DBS (Deep Brain Stimulator) to manage the tremors (a mixed blessing). Given my warped sense of humor, I have told some friends (educated and within 20 years of my age) that with the wires implanted in my brain that I can sometimes hear "space aliens" when they pass overhead, and that apparently can see through my eyes. And a very few really believe me. And I had hoped that they just going along with the joke.
I have told them that the "space aliens" are just watching to see what we are doing and are harmless. Kind of frightening.
Great rant! At a company where I had worked as an engineer for many years, they hired a guy into a semi-technical position who was a close relative to the late Bill Kaysing, the well-known conspiracy theorist. This guy was of the same ilk as Bill - and absolutely immune to any evidence that might dispute his "theories". Observing him for several years I realized that this was actually his religion - one followed mainly by the faithful believers that clung onto their cell phones but got a "D" in science class, and never studied formal Logic.
i enjoyed that... very much. made me feel like I'm not alone in my thoughts, gave me a little hope... not for humanity, but for my own sanity... i have no hope for humans... and it doesn't bother me anymore.
Great rant Fran! Very well articulated description of the anti-science / everything-is-a-conspiracy / loon brigade.
Great outburst, loved it!
I for one am learning how to make bronze tools to have the edge over my neighbors who will only have stone tools.
When asked what weapons he thought people would use in World War 3, Albert Einstein said he didn't know, but that in World War 4 we would be back to bows and arrows.
Well Fran, I hope you can rest slightly easier knowing there are others like us out there. I’m a millennial, but firmly in the same camp as you.
I hope to learn something every day. I question everything to pursue knowledge…I hope that spark doesn’t go away. If it does, we’re screwed.
My high school has Done away with all the books in their library! It’s all online now! I wonder how easy it would be to change our history when actual physical books no longer exist or no longer used?
there was nothing to stop new printed editions changing what was previously printed, and the old editions being destroyed
Preaching to the chior. You are definitely a kindred spirit. I've helped thousands of individuals with component electronics and handy level tasks and where the handy task recipients tap out is often horrifying. People are tapping out with less than one page of reading. I think it started before the iphones though (albeit accelerated by them). I learned from depression era people with loads of talent. I have to say that many baby boomers are not their parents children (and I'm a baby boomer). Where I started seeing things really going in the tank is when the depression era people I knew started dying off. What came after them was no replacement in countless cases. I live in gods waiting room (Florida) and ther tap out speed here is fast. The offspring seem to tap out at light speed. Not all..... but a very high and alarming percentage. I've seen so many cases where the parents abilities were completely lost on ALL of their children. This problem is very serious. It will not be fixed. The fundamental problem is the very short attention span coupled with the instantaneous expectation of reward (probably not much different than a form of addiction). These people will be completely useless when they age. I'd love to see one of them build a console color Heathkit TV set kit. I never thought I'd see handymen get paid $200.00 an hour. If that isn't a measure of how pathetic an otherwise healthy person is I don't know what is. Just wait until VR and AI mature! Now that is something to worry about.
You really do have a genuine kind personality ,it's good to see 👍
People aren't any more stupid than ever before, social media just gives them a voice.
I very much share your views and opinions on this topic and feel equally concerned for our future. I’m 28 years old and feel so incredibly disconnected from my and the younger generation.
Same. They're weird as hell tbh. A lot of people our age don't even know how to engage in a conversation, hold meaningful eye contact, or friendship for that matter. It's weird.
Hi Fran I really enjoy your NASA content and especially explanations for items like the mission control back projection system and how the ejectable film cartridges brought footage back to earth. I love everything about NASA such an incredible organisation. On the flat earther moon landing deniers - aside from how do 600,000 people involved with the Apollo project keep the secret thats its all fake, faking it at that time would have been a far larger technological feat to pull off. I would say I feel sorry for them but I don't, stupid is stupid. Sadly the smart phone was just an enabler to allow dumb sheeple to feel empowered, recent historical events have proved just how stupid some people are. Why can't the world be simple and yet wonderful like it once was - I guess I'm just getting old
Great inner download.....I love your channel and all of your content and "rants". You are very special.
Oh, Fran, thank you so very much!
The Project Orion book had me worried in the context of a MegaRant about the future of humanity… the nuclear pulse drive is not something I’m all that keen on having in my future.
First off, thanks for the MegaRant; it's greatly appreciated. I love you and so do lots of other people, because you're the light that shines in darkness that's more dark brown from the sh*t people spew because of their sheer, unapologetic ignorance and biases, than the dark night that's the product of a lack of knowledge.
All that said, I think the irony about the current trend against anti- science, intellectualism, expertise, knowledge, education, etc. is - and this is just my opinion, for what it's worth - is that it is crafted mostly by rightwing intellectuals, theorists and think tanks who in turn hand it down through sewer spigots like Alex Jones. This process makes such ideas created from on high the slop for the steaming masses to eat up, who sincerely believe that such "populist" ideas are organic and therefore their own. It's social engineering by elite conservatives and others like them to create a population that is easily influenced and swayed, ultimately to be subservient to such an elitist class and be grateful for whatever scraps fall off the table. It's modern feudalism in the making - or at least being attempted - as we speak. Look at any Trump rally or trailer park and I think it's clear what the eventual goal is.
I could say more, but I'll stop here. Please keep up the good work. :)
Really? I thought it was left wing knobs who think you can change your gender at will, that you should get a position based on how much you complain about historical discrimination, and that people's feelings should dictate all policy decisions.
Self reflection and wisdom are not your strengths, are they?
Yes, it is. The religious fundamentalist technologically advanced neo-feudalism where a select few have an ultimate power over the economically and intelectually enslaved masses, incapable of any rebellion, let alone a lasting and meaningful revolution.
Perfectly captured what I've been bitching about for the past 10 years! Thanks Fran for being the voice of clarity and reason
Also, a lot of Dunning Kruger effect. Everyone is an authority on everything because they have a phone
You are a shining light in dark times. Thank you.
You haven't said to much Fran. We need more voices like yours!!!
WE NEED MORE GRANDMA FRAN RANTS!!!
Totally agree! I find it interesting that people can sit in front of a phone and some see endless entertainment that takes their life away from them and others see endless opportunity to create something meaningful and income producing. An unfortunate side-effect of making technology more approachable is that more people are on that technology that don't have the same level of education/experience as the others. The voices are louder now than ever.
Somoeone just sent me your video and I must say - I highly enjoyed this speech. But I have hope with the generations after me. They will figure it out. I have hope in them. Like any modern technology; the radio, television, the internet, all are tools and are are subject of being abused. Thats just the way it is until it isn't - so I have faith in humanity. I hope you will one day soon.
My local university has seen a huge drop in students in any of the "hard" degrees (engineering, math, physics, ...). But lots of the feel good about yourself (and better than you) but useless classes. The schools and parents have been totally negligent about teaching the kids that nothing comes for free. The US got rich because of its technical leadership and general hard work. We are down to only 15% of the people who actually pay for their share of taxes, the rest are parasites. How easy it would be for the 15% to leave and have the useless discover what real work is.
Really?, I thought the US got rich of the back of WW2.
Well... I'm really worried as well. I was thinking a lot why. And you know I figured something. We lost systematic knowledge. We lost understanding of reasons and logic. All knowledge people have are fragmental and related only to things they deal with. Throwing phones won't help. And big guys are absolutely OK with that because that situation help them earn money. The main reason and goal for now is earning. Without changing it we are doomed.
Well said, I agree with all points made. We're the same age, and I recognize where you're coming from and what you're pointing at, and pointing out...
What I find amazing about smarty phones is how many DON'T use them to look stuff up.
I remember last Halloween going into a supermarket and going the other way was a father and a son. The child was about ten. The child asked his father where did Halloween came from and his dad said he didn't know. Dad was carrying a very big newish smarty phone.
LOL so true - they ask a question and have a vast array of human knowledge at their finger tips.
I even used my phone to translate a receipt from a Chinese restaurant because we didn't get all our dishes., (luckily it was from a printer, so easily read)
@@Cheepchipsable The phone isn't destroying society because it spreads falsehoods. It is because exacerbates social anxiety of being excluded from the group.