Being amazed with technology etc

stickyfiddle

boogieman said:

robgilmo said:

Tech is shit, it seems information tech is moving onwards leaps and bounds but everything else is getting left behind, the important stuff. So what if I can ask my phone how tall Everest is, we still haven't found cures to diseases because we seem to invest in info tech rather than the things that matter. Our planet is dying around us and all we give a shit about is Facebook updates and checking our EMails every half an hour, amused to death? I think so. 

I asked my wife about the medicine issue you mention, her being an ex cardiac nurse specialist. We've actually made huge leaps in treatment of all sorts of things in the last 20 years with better and more efficient operations, treatment and drugs. The chances of people surviving things like stroke, cardiac arrest, certain types of cancer, premature birth, liver and heart transplants, brain injuries etc etc are massively increased nowadays. Then there's things like bionic limbs, giving  speech to people like Stephen Hawking ...a hell of a lot of tech research goes into these things. 

My grandmother died in her 50s, before I was born. She had a weak heart valve that eventually lead to complete heart failure. Nowadays they would've replaced it with a pig valve or artificial one. A simple and quick op that gives excellent results. Things HAVE moved on massively. 

Yup this. 

Also, our planet isn't dying. We're just making it much harder for *us* to live on. The planet will be fine for millennia after we're extinct.

Danny1969

While the planet isn't dying the things that make it such an amazing planet in a vast see of nothing are being destroyed  .... deforestation ... extinction of species .... global warming ..... us as a race reminds me of a cartoon character sawing around themselves seemingly unaware they are going to fall through once the holes cut all the way round

I mean Mars is still technically fine as a planet if all you need is a lump of rock but who wants to live there ? 

Personally I hope we get wiped out  completely out while there's still some animals and some kind of environment left for them to live in left on the planet

Sambostar

I don't think we've moved on as a species at all.  Tech is just the new book or mechanics.  It's merely a distraction.  Engines haven't got anymore efficient, we still rely on fossil fuels, we're all still enslaved with limited freedoms and quality of life is starting to go backwards for most worldwide.  I'd say that was a pretty damning indictment of technology.  It's ridiculous that we're putting so many resources into things that are ultimately fruitless or whimsical.

Ravenous

Sambostar said:

It's ridiculous that we're putting so many resources into things that are ultimately fruitless or whimsical.

Do you see any irony in your postings from a computer, communication by various electronic means, and whimsical videos?

Bygone_Tones

JezWynd said:

Tavernor said:

dindude said:

No hoverboards. No amazement.

Always used to say I only learned to skate in anticipation of hoverboards! One day...
It is amazing how quickly technology moves on though.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/tav397/Memory-Card.jpg
This is a good example, a better one would be with a floppy disk next to its modern equivalent but that's the first image Google spewed up. A comedian, can't remember who, talked about how it was incredible that pretty much all the knowledge available to mankind was literally at everyone's fingertips but most use it to watch funny videos of cats.
When an iPhone for the first time I had an app which showed a virtually live stream of the world from space using satellites, you could follow weather and that. Ever so exciting waiting for a big hurricane/tornado to wreak havoc somewhere so I could look at it. Mind blowing stuff. I was bowled away at being able to play THPS2 as well, it was identical to the PS version from when I was about 13.

IBM deliver 5mb hard drive in 1956...

This is actually a prototype of the first Marshall 4x12 being delivered to Jim's shop. It was later decided it was a bit too bulky for the roadies and the design was changed.

thomasross20

Keeps me interested enough at work!

Sambostar

Ravenous said:

Sambostar said:

It's ridiculous that we're putting so many resources into things that are ultimately fruitless or whimsical.

Do you see any irony in your postings from a computer, communication by various electronic means, and whimsical videos?

Not really, I wouldn't miss it.  Computer is an addiction or work necessity, phone is a nuisance, pub is real.

beed84

@Sambostar you and I would get on. Although I've worked in a computer/phone shop, I fail to see how such devices benefit people the way they think they're going to. As for phones, the majority of the time it's just mindless prodding and swiping. Half the time I'm fed up of looking at the pissing thing. A nuisance is exactly what they are.

Clarky

stickyfiddle said:

I still feel like I live in the future every time I use an iPad. I think it's the Star-Trek-ness of it.

for the full Star Trek vibe I like to watch the meters in Ozone
it's beautiful..