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Technologies Changing Our Lives
icrowave ovens save us from the spectre of fiery deaths from forgotten soups and tea kettles. Cellphones let us big brother shady mates. The internet saves our backs from weekly recycling bin schleps. Aspartame lets us gorge ourselves silly on sweet nothings. Wireless LANs save us from having to enter the jungles growing in the dark recesses behind our desks. CD-burners liberate us from all those awful songs on sketchy albums.
And who isn't eagerly awaiting self-driving cars that never need refueling? Or gene therapies to reverse the effects of ageing? Or hypersonic airliners to cut those interminable transpacific crossings to an hour or two?
Is it just us or is technological progress the only reliable force for improving human life?
So what technologies are changing your lives? And what technologies are you staying away from?
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Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 06:09:37 PM)
AC,
I am most definitely no virgin and I think sex is in need of a serious overhaul. Women control when and how much and most of them aren't all that. Virtual sex could take things to the next level. I hear there are some advances in that direction like electronically stimulating certain parts of your brain.
StickyKleenex
Friday, May 31, 2002 at 06:46:32 (PDT)
Intelligent cars? Hypersonic airplanes? Who cares! I'm holding out for intelligent vaccuum cleaners and kitchens that will cook my meals and wash the dishes.
I also would like a clone to go to work for me and bring home the bacon.
Lazy Lizzie
Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 19:53:14 (PDT)
Afil (A Fool In Love),
You must be a virgin if you think tech will change the way we humans have sex.
I doubt much will change in how we have sex no matter how far technology takes it.
AC Dropout
Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 12:36:57 (PDT)
This might be off-topic, but has anyone else here thought about the future of sex? I'd love to hear your thoughts (BFs and AMs) on the following conjecture.
Race relations will become irrelevant once humans achieve the maturity (ie, inevitable technology & market demand) to express themselves however they wish genetically. (An offshoot of gene therapy, to envelope or complement plastic surgery of today.)
Even further, once we have the ability to transcend the genome for the unprecendented flexibility of digital parallels, we'll just conveniently project the traits of our ideal mate upon consenting partners, regardless of that person's actual (self-preferred) gender, appearance, voice, and other traits. That is, for those who haven't chosen to switch off their sex drives altogether. One chat room fits all. Imagine that.
A possible future, if we support biotech and nanotech. (Deny Bush another term for slamming the brakes on stem-cell research!)
Hell, competitive pressures will drive these anyways.
Taking the longview,
Afil (A Fool In Love) hgenl@hotmail.com
Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 15:37:47 (PDT)
Correct me if I'm wrong: I would say it is the palm pilots. You know, one of those electronic gizmos that people use to carry around their daily schedule.
chinalova
Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 13:41:23 (PDT)
You know ever since they had rice cookers with fuzzy logic I would have to say my rice porridge is just so good.
Now when I feed my friends and family rice porridge they think I slaved away at the stove all day long. When in reality I just hit the fuzzy logic button and went out for a drive in my new car, which is also full of new hi-tech toys.
I just love the experience of driving a clutchless manual/auto transmission, while talking on a hands free cell phone, staring at a GPS map to the nearest Micky D, and trying to play the latest PS 2 game on a HUD display. Did I mention the infra-red camera in the car is great for voyuerism as well as avoiding joggers at night.
And not to worry about cops because I have also installed the latest in laser/radar scrambler technology in the car. To keep those pesty cops from handing me a tickey.
AC Dropout
Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 12:40:21 (PDT)
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