If you could un-invent anything...

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What would it be?

I would say plastic. in general anyway, i would like to keep the tv! My house is full of it. Every product i buy is wrapped in it and it is going to be around for hundreds of years. It bothers me more and more.

Sometimes i would like to invent the internet - it doesnt mix well with teenagers all the time.

And takeaway coffee sometimes gets my goat!!

Any others???

mental health problems(un-realistic. me.never.)

Leaf blowers and loud gardening equipment. We survived for many years with the quiet and gentle approach to gardening, which made it a relaxing job or hobby, now everything has to be blasted into oblivion, eardrums included.

Religion

I think farming is a good one. It led to settled communities and surpluses and the human population has grown to where it is now, on the verge of destroying the planet.

I don’t think you can say farming really.

It’s been happening for millennia.

Ok yes it used to be several small holdings instead of the big mass farms we see today, but it has always happened

Even before biblical times

PlayStations, iphones, The Daily Mail, Instagram

Alcohol

I drink too much of it, it makes me fat, it contributes to a lot of antisocial problems.

Unnecessarily noisy motor vehicles especially the bike that rides around our village roads for hours.
Music in cars that is so loud that you can hear it in your house above your own music with the car windows and your windows shut.

I wouldn't ban plastics or the Internet or cars for personal use because they give my disabled son a decent quality of life.

Patriarchy. Any form of discrimination.

Curious about those looking to uninvent tech and the Internet. Do you remember life before it?

Do you remember life before it?

Yes, because I’m getting on for 50.

I’ve wasted hours and hours and hours on the internet since the 90s. Doing it right now I used to read loads of booksevery year. Listened to lots of music. Even my aimless pottering usually resulted in something useful being achieved - something cleaned or tidied or binned, or sone kind of decision made.

social media and smartphones

Fox hunting

Alcohol

@HopeClearwater I'm in my 60s and used to be far more productive pre internet - I came very late to tech, and am now addicted!

Religion
The Conservative party
Bombs
Oil - without oil they'd be no bloody wars
Ownership of land

Mothers in law

Curious about those looking to uninvent tech and the Internet. Do you remember life before it?

Now your making me feel old, it wasn't that long ago that we didn't all have access to the internet

Xbox

Yes, I remember life before the Internet .

We had it from me being 12 but it was dial up and we were charged for how long we were on it so I had limited access.

My life has deteriorated as the connections got faster, the price got lower and iPhones/iPads and laptops became commonplace. I can’t limit my time, addicted and I’ve lost years of my life to it.

I cannot see anything that it adds to my life and I can see a lot of damage that’s been done through the Internet.

Internet

...& yes, I’m SO old 🙄 I remember life before it. It wasn’t that long ago.

1. Money
2. The trickle down theory (forgot its official name)
3. Internet
4. Drones
5. Traveling for more than 30min to work
6. Uniform (school and work uniforms)

Influencers, food fads, spiders, hashtags banks

Battery farming
Pretty much all Social media (can't quite go as far as saying the entire internet)
Loads of plastic shite

Fortnite, in fact gaming in general.
The Tories.
Street drugs.

Selfie sticks

Junk food

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