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Don’t forget Radiohead releasing Planet Telex in 1995, then OK Computer in 1997.
Was born in 1996, please can someone tell me who’s this? I’d like to listen to them. Thank you.
It’s Jamiroquai.
This video is for: “Virtual Insanity”.
The video to : “Automaton” is also worth a watch in my opinion.
You NEED to watch the video: https://youtu.be/4JkIs37a2JE
I really love this cover of virtual insanity.
I know it’s almost unrelated to the discussion because you’re talking about the music video, but how often is Jamiroquai brought up?
I was very skeptical. You did not disappoint.
Excellent
I remember my mind being blown away by a TV segment that explained how the practical effect was achieved.
Not sure if this is the video you’re referencing, but it explained it for me: https://youtu.be/MzwY7ii582Y
Isn’t this just Pasttime Paradise by Stevie Wonder?
I’m a fan of both. I don’t hear it. Different key, different progression. What are you hearing that I’m not? Also, IMO it’s absolutely impossible to not be influenced by Stevie if you play this type of music, so there’s that.
Nah my bad it was Stayin Alive by Bee Gees
It’s a stretch, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like it. 😀
It’s your real dad.
Banger music video
Plus JK is a cool dude.
Great tune too tbh
ty OP for making my afternoon playlist a lot funkier
Reminds me of Serial Experiments Lain, an anime released in 1998 that talks about the power of social networks and how companies will compete to gain control of the internet. Some of the predictions are outstandingly good.
Then your mind will literally explode if you listen to “Computer Love” by Zapp & Roger, released in… 1985!
Also, System Addict by 5 Star was 1985 IIRC
I remember the that summer. Always wanted a Jamiroqoi hat
Always wanted a Jamiroqoi hat
You’ll have to be way more specific than that.
Before the modern web, before Wikipedia, before pocket computers, Encarta was the shit!
yeah i spent so much time reading random shit on it. to be fair i already did that with physical encyclopedias so it was natural. but the fact that Encarta allowed what’s now known as wiki surfing was next level for me.
Looks like the The Expanse main character throwing a hat party inside the Rocinante.
😂🤣
I miss the old internet. Usenet was magic.
Ah, convergence. In retrospect, it seems obvious that the Web would just get extended to do all that stuff. The part that was harder to predict was corporations taking over all the platforms. I guess I just waited to believe that everything would stay democratized.
Check out the gemini protocol and the small web.
Or … you know, the Usenet?
Went down a rabbit hole bc of this (thank you) and found out JK is a twinkess twin and so is Elvis
Not sure what that means but I saw him live a few years back and I was shocked how extremely British he is, both in accent and great sense of humour. Also the whole band is now a bunch of old dudes. I guess that shouldn’t be surprising but it was very different from the picture I had in my head since my childhood.
Except the music. The music was just as good as ever. It was awesome.
Did he actually have canned meat in his heels when you saw him?
Original post made me search for jamiraquoi, which led to me listening to their music, then finding a yt about their music video which led me to the jk wiki page, which had the term twinkess twin, so then I started on that etc. Internet Rabbit hole.
Im glad he’s still robustly british.
It’s “twinless” with an L.
I’m walking into spiderwebs, so leave a message and I’ll call you back.
People have always complained about how new tech warps people’s minds. Like back in the day there were people saying the same thing about books when the printing press was invented
And they had a point. While the printing press (not books, those are way older) was a tool that could be used for good, many quickly realized that it gave propagandists a whole new set of tools to manipulate people with. Newspapers had a ridiculous amount of opinion-making power for quite a while there, they just got replaced by radio, TV, and then social media and now LLMs.
What if very powerful people are literally using tech to warp people’s minds on purpose?
You mean like gasp writing subverting books?!
I mean like literally controlling who people talk to and how often, and without most people being aware of how much they are being controlled.
Information always comes from somewhere, that’s why they banned books (& “ideas”) and promoted “their ideas”. You can’t talk about democracy, equality, … if it hasn’t been presented to you as an Idea. Old as the world!
People have always complained about how new tech warps people’s minds.
Because it does.
Ask a 20yo to do simple math without using a calculator.
The more “helping” technology we rely on, the stupider we become.Ask a 20yo from the 70s to use Excel. Nobody could do that back then. How stupid.
It’s an equally wrong argument.
People’s skills adapt to what they need frequently. If they need something, they will learn how to do it and they will know how to do it. If they don’t need it, they will lose it. Why would you want to keep maintaining a skill you don’t need? It doesn’t make you a better person.
Ask a 20yo from the 70s to use Excel.
You went backwards, i went forwards, slight difference there.
People are losing basic cognitive skills.People are losing/not learning skills they don’t need. That’s it. They learn other skills instead, that they do need.
Everyone has basic photography and photo editing skills. Something most people really didn’t have in the 70s. Most people know how to use a smartphone or a PC, again not something that the average person could do in the 70s.
Then again, in the 1890s most people knew how to handle a horse and hardly anyone knew how to control a car back then.
Even back in the late 1990s a large portion of the adults were afraid to touch a computer, because they thought it was some arcane magic, and now that’s not an issue any more.
In the 80s and 90s, calligraphy was a quite common skill. Nowadays it’s not necessary any more because if I want text to look nice, I print it.
There’s no such thing as a “basic cognitive skill” that everyone needs to have in every circumstance throughout world history. Because stuff changes and skills that were super important 30 years ago just aren’t nowadays.
Case in point, to return to your original argument: It was a common thing for pupils in the early 2000s to ask their teachers why they need to be able to do long division if they can just use a calculator instead, and the common answer was “You won’t have a calculator in your pocket all the time”. Well, we do now.
When common core math was introduced across the US, I wanted to know what all the hubbub was about, so I looked into it. Funny that, despite so many parents decrying it, a few instruction pages ended up giving me (as an adult) the number sense that hadn’t fully developed from my time in school. I use constructs from it all the time now and mental math has never been easier.
Calculators are great tools, but being able to do quick math in your head before everyone else can finish punching the numbers in makes people wonder if you have super powers.
joke’s on you. I’ve always been stupid
I don’t know that I’ve ever actually registered any of the lyrics within this song, save for “vurchahwuhh insayynatyy!”
Same, I’m not a native speaker though …
