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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, 06:09:36 PM)
AC Dropout
Geez, why don't you do a documentary about it and then do the copyright on it. That way, no one can use your moves without your permission first. You could make really good money on all that royalty. And we all know how the thought of making more money excites you like nothing can.
Ballroom dancing is nothing like sex! Have you ever ballroom-danced in your life? The one requires skillful maneuvering and counting out moves with perfect timing while executing difficult memorized steps with synchronicity and grace, while the other merely requires that you enjoy yourself and do whatever the heck you want to do. No memorization and counting required and no classes or skill level required. No practice required either.
to StickyKleenex
Sounds like your emotional partner needs a little brush-up on the Kama Sutra (or AC Dropout's newest video on sex secrets and AC Dropout signature moves, guaranteed to keep you glued to your mate and off other women...or worse yet, the tech pages). Or better yet, get a new emotional partner, one that can satisfy you like the one you have is not able to do.
MLK
Thursday, June 06, 2002 at 20:48:48 (PDT)
to Multiplication is better than Division
I think it has something to do with the nanobots running around, eating up the junk and then using the refuse to create new stuff that we can use. I think it would be cool if we could use nanobots in our bodies to convert oxygen for us so we don't have to breathe. We could go swimming without the need of oxygen masks and spaceflight wouldn't need to be so difficult because we wouldn't need to carry all that air. And wouldn't it be great if we could use them to repair old body tissue? We would never die if we really didn't want to...but it would get kinda boring really fast if we didn't get a chance to rest after a few hundred years.
MLK
Thursday, June 06, 2002 at 20:35:13 (PDT)
Multiplication is better than Division,
"the earth cannot support 6 billion people living in excess we do in America."
And they shouldn't. That's why we destroyed Communism. Only we get the good stuff. The rest of the world suffers.
AC Dropout
Thursday, June 06, 2002 at 10:24:05 (PDT)
Sheesh, I may sound a little condescending but if we can achieve all this virtual sex...why don't we end world hunger or even move on to more practical matters such as storing nuclear waste on the moon and stop making more of it. Oh well, thats just the hippie in me talking.
I remember an unabashedly optimistic expert in nanotechnology once said in college that the earth can only support a certain number of people, and we are not that far from that number now. I don't remember the exact number but I also remember this opinion, the earth cannot support 6 billion people living in excess we do in America. However nanotechnology can make this happen. Not sure how since I was only at the talk for the free pizza--now that's excess.
Multiplication is better than Division
Tuesday, June 04, 2002 at 22:20:41 (PDT)
PDAs are mission critical, especially if you have to keep track of a lot of information. Keeps everything organized.
MD
Tuesday, June 04, 2002 at 21:38:20 (PDT)
MLK,
I get enough of the emotional closeness stuff without tech help.
What I need more of is hot sex with new bodies. Trouble is the pursuit of that can mess up the emotional closeness with that special someone. I think really good simulated sex might be the only answer. I'll keep scanning the tech pages.
StickyKleenex
Tuesday, June 04, 2002 at 16:26:11 (PDT)
MLK,
I can't go sharing all my secrets about sex. Then there would be imitators in bedrooms all over the world. The AC Dropout signature moves would be banal.
It is suffice to say sex is like ballroom dancing. There is a beginning, middle, and end. There is tempo and rythm. There are times for flares and gradual build up.
Just like you need to find a good dance partner for ballroom dancing. One needs to find a compatiable sex partner for good sex.
"I could have a device that plugs right in so I can use my remote control on my man"
A control freak are we? Sounds like you're a dominmatrix in the making. You probably need a good submissive or bottom in your life.
"toothpaste tubes have flip caps"
Didn't they have toothpaste in a pump a few years back. What happen to those things. I thought they were kinda neat.
AC Dropout
Tuesday, June 04, 2002 at 13:13:18 (PDT)
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