This 1999 clip of Prince warning about the internet hits like a sermon from the future



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    1. floofyragdollcat on

      And now we all wear it on our wrists and my toothbrush sends me emails.

      *flatly* Yay for us.

    2. Sometimes I miss pre-internet and that’s coming from an IT guy that wouldn’t have a job without it.

    3. I miss our old world where we did not have all this <insert long diatribe on the evils of social distance>. I’m old now so I figure that the world around me going to shit is just natures way of saying “your time is up old man, go back to the dust you came from”.

    4. adminsreachout on

      This isn’t what you think it was. It’s Jehovah Witness messaging from the mid to late 90’s.

    5. If only we had listened. The time before personal home computers was a different world, different reality.

      Looking back now is just a mind f@$k.

    6. podcastofallpodcasts on

      He also went to war with Sony if I remember correctly

      I am willing to bet this guy saw the dark side of the entertainment business that is slowly coming to light

    7. If we ever discover that hostile aliens are visiting earth we’ll probably learn that they crashed a few of their obsolete ships specifically so that we’d find them and duplicate their earliest technology. Their plan was that we’d invent computers, then social media, and become too divided, stupid and fat to resist their invasion. By the looks of it, we don’t have much time left.

    8. CrimsonLantern76 on

      I’m from the class of ’82. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t miss the days before the Internet. I’m part of that so-called in-between generation that experienced both worlds. And man, I really miss the pre-Internet era. When it first came out, it felt like the greatest thing humanity had ever created. Now, I think it’s the exact opposite.

    9. Twitter is the embodiment of this speech, you’re used by the anger and emotion of negative minds on a site trying to farm clicks through mass hysteria and outrage over political sports and keep coming back as if you’re doing something in a medium for just shouting matches with strangers.

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