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Krilons Resa
Jerry's married?!
pretty much the same way I feel about people calling my cell phone and expecting me to answer it every time/all the time. i cringe every time my cell phone rings.
NAD
What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
You dudes need to leave the cell phone in your car like I do. People figure it out really quickly and leave you the fuck alone. My recent call list has 3 people on there and it's a month long. 
I'm not anti-technology. I'm anti-gluing oneself to The System at all hours. I've gone to restaurants and witnessed couples attached to their DumbFones instead of making conversation. Oh sure, you could probably blame the stupid rather than the phone in those cases, but still, why give morons the options to display their idiocy and distract me from my faux-Italian dinner at Macaroni Grill?
I'm not anti-technology. I'm anti-gluing oneself to The System at all hours. I've gone to restaurants and witnessed couples attached to their DumbFones instead of making conversation. Oh sure, you could probably blame the stupid rather than the phone in those cases, but still, why give morons the options to display their idiocy and distract me from my faux-Italian dinner at Macaroni Grill?
Reign in Acai
Of Elephant and Man
On an individual level, how much further would you like to see it come? We've already reached the day where kids pick up cellphones, before they pick up a ball. I'm not too keen on having my meal webBozarthed. It's just getting all too silly to the point where these convenient devices have become added appendages. Technology should be focused towards promoting quality of life in our advanced years & and mustering up a viable energy source which the brigands in power can monetarily take advantage of so it could become viable for all. It shouldn't be focused on providing 12000 apps at your fingertips so you could conveniently respond to this post while on the toilet.
NAD
What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
Yep, yep. People easily make themselves prisoners to technology. I don't mind that the technology exists, and for those whose careers demand it, it's quite helpful. But for us regular folk, why? Take a damned walk in the park, don't just sit on the bench with your face buried in your phone, if they can even be called phones anymore. There's more to life than intarwebbing!
swizzlenuts
i'm sciencing as fast as i can
I'd love to see Minority Report for computer.
Explain to me why it's bad to be around technology all the time. Your arguments are like, some people are douchebags and use technology like douchebags, therefore the technology is dumb.
Explain to me why it's bad to be around technology all the time. Your arguments are like, some people are douchebags and use technology like douchebags, therefore the technology is dumb.
Reign in Acai
Of Elephant and Man
Technology on a whole does more to stave development than it does to encourage it. Look around ye, how many candidates for lap bands do ye see? How many that could pass a basic U.S history exam? Kids don't even experience the satisfaction of sifting through the linear notes of a store bought recording, as a 320kbps facsimile is at their fingertips. As Nad touched himself on earlier, couples can't even break biscuits with one another without having to check their messages every second of the hour. See Will Bozarth for a prime example of how technology has destroyed more lives than the dropping of the A on Hiroshima. Happy Anniversary btw, filthy gooks!
swizzlenuts
i'm sciencing as fast as i can
Fucking technology. Definitely doesn't save lives, make us live longer, help cure diseases, help with research, or help fix the problems in our world.
Reign in Acai
Of Elephant and Man
Nobody here is discrediting technology in the applications listed above. However for the individual, technology doesn't need to progress further than it has. What's next, HD Wheaties?
swizzlenuts
i'm sciencing as fast as i can
Cars driving automatically, robots for personal use (I, Robot style), and synthetic foods (like meats) for your house.
Making arguments to say that technology should not go any further just doesn't make any sense. Before the the invention of audio recording no one even thought that was even possible; to make my point more clear: if you hold opinions like that all it does is close doors.
Making arguments to say that technology should not go any further just doesn't make any sense. Before the the invention of audio recording no one even thought that was even possible; to make my point more clear: if you hold opinions like that all it does is close doors.
Reign in Acai
Of Elephant and Man
Have we really reached an age where putting force on a pedal and turning a wheel 2 and 1/4 inches to make a turn is too extraneous? Holy shit, I hope I've long checked out before this advent. I don't know what I could use a robot for, and I prefer my meat slaughtered, not formulated in a vat.
Edit - The only thing that has made me salivate in recent memory is gorilla glass, which can save a ton of material resources in the long term.
swizzlenuts
i'm sciencing as fast as i can
Drunk driving and driving while exhausted would save so many lives and it could also help people get more things done. It's not easier, it's better.
I cannot fucking wait until meat is synthesized. They could tune the meat to be exactly how you like it (kind of like in Hitch Hikers Guide's tea machine)
Krilons Resa
Jerry's married?!
Reign in Acai
Of Elephant and Man
Progress= more idiots living longer. Some doors were meant to stay closed, our technological greed is surpassing our cognitive capabilities. /halfseriousrant/
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