Technology is going to eventually liberate the world

[P@triot]

Awesome story about how one man is leveraging technology to enlighten the people of North Korea...

He Calls Himself ‘Free Man’

Technology is fizzling. What is new in the past 50 years is primarily used for entertainment.

"Fizzling"? You're kidding - right?!?

Voice Over IP isn't used for "entertainment". Neither is encryption. While the Internet is certainly heavily used for entertainment, it is equally as heavily used for learning, e-commerce, communication, and collaboration. GPS has been developed in the last 50 years and is nearly never used for "entertainment". WikiLeaks has exposed secrets and made governments more accountable to the people?

As a consultant - I was once involved in a project to roll out a "medical robot" at a healthcare facility. From literally anywhere in the world - a physician could see a patient. The robot had built in blood pressure cuff, heart rate monitor, etc. which would provide all of the vitals in real time to the physician. There were cameras, mics, and speakers for the physician and patient to interact. The physician could steer the robot through out the facility from patient room to patient room. The applications were near limitless. If a patient came in that didn't speak English, a physician from their nation could be engaged to provide the exam. If a physician on site was stumped, the best specialists in the world could be consulted.

Technology is far from "fizzling" - it is rapidly accelerating. It's making the world safer, it's expanding our life expectancy, and it's allowing us to achieve more in less time.

Kids today are the dumbest they've ever been. People don't live much longer than they did 50 years ago. Doctors came to your home when you were sick.
My grandmother as a child rode horse drawn carriages, had no telephone or electricity in her home. Planes did not exist. I sat with her watching man land on the moon. Today, we can't get a man in space.

Yes, technology is fizzling.

LOL. First of all, this old man goes to college with those kids. They are as smart as any I knew when I was their age. Not only that, they are covering far more, far faster than they did when I first started college in the '60's. In fact, I was showing a friend, a metallurgical engineer, what we were studying in third quarter Calculus, and he could hardly believe it. He said they did not take that until grad school.

Lordy, people do so live longer than they did when I was young. On the average, far longer. And far healthier.

Now, when that doctor was driving to your house, he was not analyzing your problem, or anyone else's. So that was valuable wasted time.

Yes, we can get a man into space, but the things we need to know can be achieved by robots at much less expense. And we have several private enterprises now vying to put men into space for commercial ventures. And that is the traditional method here in America. The government pioneers it, when no business can afford it, then as the technology develops, and becomes less expensive, private enterprise takes over, and the government moves on to the next frontier.

Why you are so down on America, and all of it's citizens, I don't know.

Again, name 3 technological introductions in the past 50 years that have changed mankind for the better. Yeah, we have cell phones. Primary use is to text so you don't have to talk to people and play games with. I know all about private ventures in space, I have SpaceX parts out there with my signatures on the paperwork.

Most college graduates can't tell you where a tomato comes from, let alone how to function in the labor force.

Keep in mind I speak in generalities, so please don't say so and so does this. But the human race is getting dumber. I study the ancients now, and what they accomplished runs circles around us today.

I've already done this several times and made you look like an idiot. And you have to be a pretty big idiot to get me to completely agree with Old Rocks.

 

[P@triot]

The ancients did a great deal with a very primitive technology. However, their technology left them at the untender mercy of natural events. Santorini.

Pretty much the same natural events that kill us today.

Hey....I know! Why don't you tell us again how it was mind-boggling "technology" that the milk-man delivered milk to grandma's doorstep and how the doctor would come to your house and bleed you to "fix" your ailments.

Idiot here still confuses technology and service.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Technology is fizzling. What is new in the past 50 years is primarily used for entertainment.

"Fizzling"? You're kidding - right?!?

Voice Over IP isn't used for "entertainment". Neither is encryption. While the Internet is certainly heavily used for entertainment, it is equally as heavily used for learning, e-commerce, communication, and collaboration. GPS has been developed in the last 50 years and is nearly never used for "entertainment". WikiLeaks has exposed secrets and made governments more accountable to the people?

As a consultant - I was once involved in a project to roll out a "medical robot" at a healthcare facility. From literally anywhere in the world - a physician could see a patient. The robot had built in blood pressure cuff, heart rate monitor, etc. which would provide all of the vitals in real time to the physician. There were cameras, mics, and speakers for the physician and patient to interact. The physician could steer the robot through out the facility from patient room to patient room. The applications were near limitless. If a patient came in that didn't speak English, a physician from their nation could be engaged to provide the exam. If a physician on site was stumped, the best specialists in the world could be consulted.

Technology is far from "fizzling" - it is rapidly accelerating. It's making the world safer, it's expanding our life expectancy, and it's allowing us to achieve more in less time.

Kids today are the dumbest they've ever been. People don't live much longer than they did 50 years ago. Doctors came to your home when you were sick.
My grandmother as a child rode horse drawn carriages, had no telephone or electricity in her home. Planes did not exist. I sat with her watching man land on the moon. Today, we can't get a man in space.

Yes, technology is fizzling.

LOL. First of all, this old man goes to college with those kids. They are as smart as any I knew when I was their age. Not only that, they are covering far more, far faster than they did when I first started college in the '60's. In fact, I was showing a friend, a metallurgical engineer, what we were studying in third quarter Calculus, and he could hardly believe it. He said they did not take that until grad school.

Lordy, people do so live longer than they did when I was young. On the average, far longer. And far healthier.

Now, when that doctor was driving to your house, he was not analyzing your problem, or anyone else's. So that was valuable wasted time.

Yes, we can get a man into space, but the things we need to know can be achieved by robots at much less expense. And we have several private enterprises now vying to put men into space for commercial ventures. And that is the traditional method here in America. The government pioneers it, when no business can afford it, then as the technology develops, and becomes less expensive, private enterprise takes over, and the government moves on to the next frontier.

Why you are so down on America, and all of it's citizens, I don't know.

Again, name 3 technological introductions in the past 50 years that have changed mankind for the better. Yeah, we have cell phones. Primary use is to text so you don't have to talk to people and play games with. I know all about private ventures in space, I have SpaceX parts out there with my signatures on the paperwork.

Most college graduates can't tell you where a tomato comes from, let alone how to function in the labor force.

Keep in mind I speak in generalities, so please don't say so and so does this. But the human race is getting dumber. I study the ancients now, and what they accomplished runs circles around us today.

I've already done this several times and made you look like an idiot. And you have to be a pretty big idiot to get me to completely agree with Old Rocks.

Ah yes, you state an obscure medical implant few use is a game changer technology for humanity. You prove people under 40 are clueless.

 

[P@triot]

"Fizzling"? You're kidding - right?!?

Voice Over IP isn't used for "entertainment". Neither is encryption. While the Internet is certainly heavily used for entertainment, it is equally as heavily used for learning, e-commerce, communication, and collaboration. GPS has been developed in the last 50 years and is nearly never used for "entertainment". WikiLeaks has exposed secrets and made governments more accountable to the people?

As a consultant - I was once involved in a project to roll out a "medical robot" at a healthcare facility. From literally anywhere in the world - a physician could see a patient. The robot had built in blood pressure cuff, heart rate monitor, etc. which would provide all of the vitals in real time to the physician. There were cameras, mics, and speakers for the physician and patient to interact. The physician could steer the robot through out the facility from patient room to patient room. The applications were near limitless. If a patient came in that didn't speak English, a physician from their nation could be engaged to provide the exam. If a physician on site was stumped, the best specialists in the world could be consulted.

Technology is far from "fizzling" - it is rapidly accelerating. It's making the world safer, it's expanding our life expectancy, and it's allowing us to achieve more in less time.

Kids today are the dumbest they've ever been. People don't live much longer than they did 50 years ago. Doctors came to your home when you were sick.
My grandmother as a child rode horse drawn carriages, had no telephone or electricity in her home. Planes did not exist. I sat with her watching man land on the moon. Today, we can't get a man in space.

Yes, technology is fizzling.

LOL. First of all, this old man goes to college with those kids. They are as smart as any I knew when I was their age. Not only that, they are covering far more, far faster than they did when I first started college in the '60's. In fact, I was showing a friend, a metallurgical engineer, what we were studying in third quarter Calculus, and he could hardly believe it. He said they did not take that until grad school.

Lordy, people do so live longer than they did when I was young. On the average, far longer. And far healthier.

Now, when that doctor was driving to your house, he was not analyzing your problem, or anyone else's. So that was valuable wasted time.

Yes, we can get a man into space, but the things we need to know can be achieved by robots at much less expense. And we have several private enterprises now vying to put men into space for commercial ventures. And that is the traditional method here in America. The government pioneers it, when no business can afford it, then as the technology develops, and becomes less expensive, private enterprise takes over, and the government moves on to the next frontier.

Why you are so down on America, and all of it's citizens, I don't know.

Again, name 3 technological introductions in the past 50 years that have changed mankind for the better. Yeah, we have cell phones. Primary use is to text so you don't have to talk to people and play games with. I know all about private ventures in space, I have SpaceX parts out there with my signatures on the paperwork.

Most college graduates can't tell you where a tomato comes from, let alone how to function in the labor force.

Keep in mind I speak in generalities, so please don't say so and so does this. But the human race is getting dumber. I study the ancients now, and what they accomplished runs circles around us today.

I've already done this several times and made you look like an idiot. And you have to be a pretty big idiot to get me to completely agree with Old Rocks.

Ah yes, you state an obscure medical implant few use is a game changer technology for humanity. You prove people under 40 are clueless.

Funny how no matter what technology we state you proclaim it is "not a game changer". Thankful for the rest of us (who actually have common sense), you are not the ultimate arbiter of what constitutes a "game changer". Because anyone who is not an idiot realizes that keeping people alive is a "game changer".

 

[Weatherman2020]

The ancients did a great deal with a very primitive technology. However, their technology left them at the untender mercy of natural events. Santorini.

Pretty much the same natural events that kill us today.

Hey....I know! Why don't you tell us again how it was mind-boggling "technology" that the milk-man delivered milk to grandma's doorstep and how the doctor would come to your house and bleed you to "fix" your ailments.

Idiot here still confuses technology and service.

Customer service is a sign of an advanced civilization. The fact you don't know this is again another display of your ignorance.

 

[P@triot]

The ancients did a great deal with a very primitive technology. However, their technology left them at the untender mercy of natural events. Santorini.

Pretty much the same natural events that kill us today.

Hey....I know! Why don't you tell us again how it was mind-boggling "technology" that the milk-man delivered milk to grandma's doorstep and how the doctor would come to your house and bleed you to "fix" your ailments.

Idiot here still confuses technology and service.

Customer service is a sign of an advanced civilization. The fact you don't know this is again another display of your ignorance.

But you know what it is not a sign of idiot? Technology

 

[Weatherman2020]

Kids today are the dumbest they've ever been. People don't live much longer than they did 50 years ago. Doctors came to your home when you were sick.
My grandmother as a child rode horse drawn carriages, had no telephone or electricity in her home. Planes did not exist. I sat with her watching man land on the moon. Today, we can't get a man in space.

Yes, technology is fizzling.

LOL. First of all, this old man goes to college with those kids. They are as smart as any I knew when I was their age. Not only that, they are covering far more, far faster than they did when I first started college in the '60's. In fact, I was showing a friend, a metallurgical engineer, what we were studying in third quarter Calculus, and he could hardly believe it. He said they did not take that until grad school.

Lordy, people do so live longer than they did when I was young. On the average, far longer. And far healthier.

Now, when that doctor was driving to your house, he was not analyzing your problem, or anyone else's. So that was valuable wasted time.

Yes, we can get a man into space, but the things we need to know can be achieved by robots at much less expense. And we have several private enterprises now vying to put men into space for commercial ventures. And that is the traditional method here in America. The government pioneers it, when no business can afford it, then as the technology develops, and becomes less expensive, private enterprise takes over, and the government moves on to the next frontier.

Why you are so down on America, and all of it's citizens, I don't know.

Again, name 3 technological introductions in the past 50 years that have changed mankind for the better. Yeah, we have cell phones. Primary use is to text so you don't have to talk to people and play games with. I know all about private ventures in space, I have SpaceX parts out there with my signatures on the paperwork.

Most college graduates can't tell you where a tomato comes from, let alone how to function in the labor force.

Keep in mind I speak in generalities, so please don't say so and so does this. But the human race is getting dumber. I study the ancients now, and what they accomplished runs circles around us today.

I've already done this several times and made you look like an idiot. And you have to be a pretty big idiot to get me to completely agree with Old Rocks.

Ah yes, you state an obscure medical implant few use is a game changer technology for humanity. You prove people under 40 are clueless.

Funny how no matter what technology we state you proclaim it is "not a game changer". Thankful for the rest of us (who actually have common sense), you are not the ultimate arbiter of what constitutes a "game changer". Because anyone who is not an idiot realizes that keeping people alive is a "game changer".

You validate my point, thank you.

 

[Weatherman2020]

The ancients did a great deal with a very primitive technology. However, their technology left them at the untender mercy of natural events. Santorini.

Pretty much the same natural events that kill us today.

Hey....I know! Why don't you tell us again how it was mind-boggling "technology" that the milk-man delivered milk to grandma's doorstep and how the doctor would come to your house and bleed you to "fix" your ailments.

Idiot here still confuses technology and service.

Customer service is a sign of an advanced civilization. The fact you don't know this is again another display of your ignorance.

But you know what it is not a sign of idiot? Technology

Technology that existed before you were born.

 

[P@triot]

LOL. First of all, this old man goes to college with those kids. They are as smart as any I knew when I was their age. Not only that, they are covering far more, far faster than they did when I first started college in the '60's. In fact, I was showing a friend, a metallurgical engineer, what we were studying in third quarter Calculus, and he could hardly believe it. He said they did not take that until grad school.

Lordy, people do so live longer than they did when I was young. On the average, far longer. And far healthier.

Now, when that doctor was driving to your house, he was not analyzing your problem, or anyone else's. So that was valuable wasted time.

Yes, we can get a man into space, but the things we need to know can be achieved by robots at much less expense. And we have several private enterprises now vying to put men into space for commercial ventures. And that is the traditional method here in America. The government pioneers it, when no business can afford it, then as the technology develops, and becomes less expensive, private enterprise takes over, and the government moves on to the next frontier.

Why you are so down on America, and all of it's citizens, I don't know.

Again, name 3 technological introductions in the past 50 years that have changed mankind for the better. Yeah, we have cell phones. Primary use is to text so you don't have to talk to people and play games with. I know all about private ventures in space, I have SpaceX parts out there with my signatures on the paperwork.

Most college graduates can't tell you where a tomato comes from, let alone how to function in the labor force.

Keep in mind I speak in generalities, so please don't say so and so does this. But the human race is getting dumber. I study the ancients now, and what they accomplished runs circles around us today.

I've already done this several times and made you look like an idiot. And you have to be a pretty big idiot to get me to completely agree with Old Rocks.

Ah yes, you state an obscure medical implant few use is a game changer technology for humanity. You prove people under 40 are clueless.

Funny how no matter what technology we state you proclaim it is "not a game changer". Thankful for the rest of us (who actually have common sense), you are not the ultimate arbiter of what constitutes a "game changer". Because anyone who is not an idiot realizes that keeping people alive is a "game changer".

You validate my point, thank you.

You have no point. And you have no common sense either. All you have is idiotic longings for the "good old days" where the milk-man showed up at your home.

 

[P@triot]

The ancients did a great deal with a very primitive technology. However, their technology left them at the untender mercy of natural events. Santorini.

Pretty much the same natural events that kill us today.

Hey....I know! Why don't you tell us again how it was mind-boggling "technology" that the milk-man delivered milk to grandma's doorstep and how the doctor would come to your house and bleed you to "fix" your ailments.

Idiot here still confuses technology and service.

Customer service is a sign of an advanced civilization. The fact you don't know this is again another display of your ignorance.

But you know what it is not a sign of idiot? Technology

Technology that existed before you were born.

Again stupid....it's not "technology". It is service. Two very different concepts junior.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Again, name 3 technological introductions in the past 50 years that have changed mankind for the better. Yeah, we have cell phones. Primary use is to text so you don't have to talk to people and play games with. I know all about private ventures in space, I have SpaceX parts out there with my signatures on the paperwork.

Most college graduates can't tell you where a tomato comes from, let alone how to function in the labor force.

Keep in mind I speak in generalities, so please don't say so and so does this. But the human race is getting dumber. I study the ancients now, and what they accomplished runs circles around us today.

I've already done this several times and made you look like an idiot. And you have to be a pretty big idiot to get me to completely agree with Old Rocks.

Ah yes, you state an obscure medical implant few use is a game changer technology for humanity. You prove people under 40 are clueless.

Funny how no matter what technology we state you proclaim it is "not a game changer". Thankful for the rest of us (who actually have common sense), you are not the ultimate arbiter of what constitutes a "game changer". Because anyone who is not an idiot realizes that keeping people alive is a "game changer".

You validate my point, thank you.

You have no point. And you have no common sense either. All you have is idiotic longings for the "good old days" where the milk-man showed up at your home.

Yeah. Romans built the coliseum in Rome in 5 years. How long does it take to build a stadium today? Romans built roads and water systems still in use today. Our roads and water systems are falling apart after 50 years. 5,000 years ago we built structures no one can figure out how. Hell, we don't even know how they built the great cathedrals of Europe. Greeks built computers 2,000 years ago. Yeah, I long for the good old days.

 

[P@triot]

I've already done this several times and made you look like an idiot. And you have to be a pretty big idiot to get me to completely agree with Old Rocks.

Ah yes, you state an obscure medical implant few use is a game changer technology for humanity. You prove people under 40 are clueless.

Funny how no matter what technology we state you proclaim it is "not a game changer". Thankful for the rest of us (who actually have common sense), you are not the ultimate arbiter of what constitutes a "game changer". Because anyone who is not an idiot realizes that keeping people alive is a "game changer".

You validate my point, thank you.

You have no point. And you have no common sense either. All you have is idiotic longings for the "good old days" where the milk-man showed up at your home.

Yeah. Romans built the coliseum in Rome in 5 years. How long does it take to build a stadium today? Romans built roads and water systems still in use today. Our roads and water systems are falling apart after 50 years. 5,000 years ago we built structures no one can figure out how. Hell, we don't even know how they built the great cathedrals of Europe. Greeks built computers 2,000 years ago. Yeah, I long for the good old days.

Oh man....Tell me junior, did the roman coliseum have over 10 million feet of electrical wiring? Did it have over 5 million feet of fiber optic cabling and over 2.5 million feet of Cat6e cabling? Did it have over 3,000 tv's in it? Did it have hundreds of digital signage boards such as menu boards at concession stands? Did it have running water and electricity? Massive kitchens for producing foods?

Do you realize what an idiot you are now? Because the rest of us do....

 

[Weatherman2020]

Ah yes, you state an obscure medical implant few use is a game changer technology for humanity. You prove people under 40 are clueless.

Funny how no matter what technology we state you proclaim it is "not a game changer". Thankful for the rest of us (who actually have common sense), you are not the ultimate arbiter of what constitutes a "game changer". Because anyone who is not an idiot realizes that keeping people alive is a "game changer".

You validate my point, thank you.

You have no point. And you have no common sense either. All you have is idiotic longings for the "good old days" where the milk-man showed up at your home.

Yeah. Romans built the coliseum in Rome in 5 years. How long does it take to build a stadium today? Romans built roads and water systems still in use today. Our roads and water systems are falling apart after 50 years. 5,000 years ago we built structures no one can figure out how. Hell, we don't even know how they built the great cathedrals of Europe. Greeks built computers 2,000 years ago. Yeah, I long for the good old days.

Oh man....Tell me junior, did the roman coliseum have over 10 million feet of electrical wiring? Did it have over 5 million feet of fiber optic cabling and over 2.5 million feet of Cat6e cabling? Did it have over 3,000 tv's in it? Did it have hundreds of digital signage boards such as menu boards at concession stands? Did it have running water and electricity? Massive kitchens for producing foods?

Do you realize what an idiot you are now? Because the rest of us do....

Didn't teach you much in college did they? Just learn about Carbon emmissons? Roman Coliseum had A/C, could empty in 15 minutes, and go from holding floating ships to playing land games in an hour.

Hilarious you think you're so advanced with your Pokemon and boob tube.

 

[P@triot]

Funny how no matter what technology we state you proclaim it is "not a game changer". Thankful for the rest of us (who actually have common sense), you are not the ultimate arbiter of what constitutes a "game changer". Because anyone who is not an idiot realizes that keeping people alive is a "game changer".

You validate my point, thank you.

You have no point. And you have no common sense either. All you have is idiotic longings for the "good old days" where the milk-man showed up at your home.

Yeah. Romans built the coliseum in Rome in 5 years. How long does it take to build a stadium today? Romans built roads and water systems still in use today. Our roads and water systems are falling apart after 50 years. 5,000 years ago we built structures no one can figure out how. Hell, we don't even know how they built the great cathedrals of Europe. Greeks built computers 2,000 years ago. Yeah, I long for the good old days.

Oh man....Tell me junior, did the roman coliseum have over 10 million feet of electrical wiring? Did it have over 5 million feet of fiber optic cabling and over 2.5 million feet of Cat6e cabling? Did it have over 3,000 tv's in it? Did it have hundreds of digital signage boards such as menu boards at concession stands? Did it have running water and electricity? Massive kitchens for producing foods?

Do you realize what an idiot you are now? Because the rest of us do....

Didn't teach you much in college did they? Just learn about Carbon emmissons? Roman Coliseum had A/C, could empty in 15 minutes, and go from holding floating ships to playing land games in an hour.

Hilarious you think you're so advanced with your Pokemon and boob tube.

Oh lord....another "carbon emissions global warming" tin foil hat conspiracy theorist.

Junior....nothing you said that explained away the reason it takes so much longer to build stadiums today. The freaking roman coliseum didn't have miles and miles of fiber optic cabling and electrical wiring, thousands and thousands of tv's and digital boards, etc. Hell - the coliseum didn't even have doors.

 

[Old Rocks]

I've already done this several times and made you look like an idiot. And you have to be a pretty big idiot to get me to completely agree with Old Rocks.

Ah yes, you state an obscure medical implant few use is a game changer technology for humanity. You prove people under 40 are clueless.

Funny how no matter what technology we state you proclaim it is "not a game changer". Thankful for the rest of us (who actually have common sense), you are not the ultimate arbiter of what constitutes a "game changer". Because anyone who is not an idiot realizes that keeping people alive is a "game changer".

You validate my point, thank you.

You have no point. And you have no common sense either. All you have is idiotic longings for the "good old days" where the milk-man showed up at your home.

Yeah. Romans built the coliseum in Rome in 5 years. How long does it take to build a stadium today? Romans built roads and water systems still in use today. Our roads and water systems are falling apart after 50 years. 5,000 years ago we built structures no one can figure out how. Hell, we don't even know how they built the great cathedrals of Europe. Greeks built computers 2,000 years ago. Yeah, I long for the good old days.

LOL Damn, try reading 'The Ancient Engineers' by L. Sprague DeCamp and his wife. You might actually learn something about how much of that was built.

 

[bripat9643]

Nobody has predicted even the PC. So it is impossible to tell what technology will do, free people or enslave people. But if history is anything to go by, then technology will not free people but will enslave people instead.

When the singularity occurs, we will all be taking orders from machines, if they don't kill us all, that is.

 

[P@triot]

Nobody has predicted even the PC. So it is impossible to tell what technology will do, free people or enslave people. But if history is anything to go by, then technology will not free people but will enslave people instead.

When the singularity occurs, we will all be taking orders from machines, if they don't kill us all, that is.

Don't believe the Hollywood hype that applies human feelings to machines...

 

[anotherlife]

Nobody has predicted even the PC. So it is impossible to tell what technology will do, free people or enslave people. But if history is anything to go by, then technology will not free people but will enslave people instead.

When the singularity occurs, we will all be taking orders from machines, if they don't kill us all, that is.

The machines will give humans what humans deserve, I am sure.

 

[anotherlife]

Nobody has predicted even the PC. So it is impossible to tell what technology will do, free people or enslave people. But if history is anything to go by, then technology will not free people but will enslave people instead.

When the singularity occurs, we will all be taking orders from machines, if they don't kill us all, that is.

Don't believe the Hollywood hype that applies human feelings to machines...

I think it is interesting, that mathematically, the structure of feelings is a container and precondition of cognition and logic classification. In other words, machines too need to have feelings, to be able to make self contained decisions. So Hollywood animating all kinds of objects is not that far from the truth and necessity. Mathematically, at least.

 

[bripat9643]

Nobody has predicted even the PC. So it is impossible to tell what technology will do, free people or enslave people. But if history is anything to go by, then technology will not free people but will enslave people instead.

When the singularity occurs, we will all be taking orders from machines, if they don't kill us all, that is.

The machines will give humans what humans deserve, I am sure.

What do humans deserve?