Acoma and we, in the so-called western world, are trying to understand how it affects Internet our daily lives, our relationships and our health, every aspect of our lives. So let’s try to imagine how drastically one has changed community on Amazon who received it in one night. This is what a reporter tries to find out New York Timesor Jack Nicaswhich he visited with the photographer Victor Moriyama isolated tribal villages Rough, in the heart of the rainforest. To get there, they had to walk approx 80 kilometers.
What does he share in a video, from this experiment that develops in live time?
“They are an indigenous tribe that has lived for hundreds of years, if not more, in one of the most remote areas of the Amazon. So it amazes me to see this difference between the old, traditional WAYS in life by Marubo and the new way, which seems more familiar to me: that is, to see many bent over the cell phones them, write messages, send audio files, watch video clips. I saw two boys watching one of his videos Neymar Jr after another.
“They are not a completely isolated tribe. Many of its members already have smartphones, which they use to communicate when walking around town or taking pictures. But in September 2023 came the Starlink antenna, which communicates in Elon Musk’s SpaceX satellite system. Immediately the Internet is a great success, the world is always connected, to the point of creating problems of hunting and plants necessary for their life. So what the leaders do in the tribe, in almost all villages, limit its use for a few hours in the morning and evening and throughout Sunday.
“The world is always connected, to the point where there are problems with hunting and cultivation that are necessary for their life. So what the tribal leaders do is, in almost every village, to limit its use.”
»Marubo has experienced all the benefits of the Internet, such as the ability to call for help in case of a medical emergency, to communicate with different villages and to be better informed about what is happening in the world. But at the same time I saw that they were facing her wrong information and the online ones scamsTHE pornographyHE addiction on social media and violent video games.
“Their big difference from the rest of the world, which has decades to figure out what the Internet means for society, is that they have to deal with it all at once. Tribal leaders also said that the more young people go online, the more naturally they become interested in the outside world and think of leaving the forest. And this is especially worrying for the older members of the tribe, who fear that they they will die the civilizationTHE traditions and custom of the Marubo people in those remote barangays».