Glad I found this useful post while refreshing HN for some mental stimulus.
A book I found silly when I read it was Future shock. It said that change and information would be so rapid in the future that people would be in permanent state of shock. Seemed like a ridiculous notion at the time but not anymore.
22 year old me read about the Jewish tradition of Sabbath day and found it so silly. A day where you’re not supposed to use any technology or do any productive work ? How silly !
I totally get it now. They were onto something. We’ve now reinvented it as “digital detox” and “dopamine fasting”.
Got my hit by writing this comment now off to the the next post I go.