What does the Superbowl tell us about human science?

[Raynine]

We are living in a world of expanding technology, and I cannot deny that. It seems strange to think that just a few generations ago a telephone was a luxury. Even electricity was rare in homes just a hundred years ago. I recall going to my grandparents’ home in the early 1950s because they had a television. We had a radio then but that was it.

Philo Farnsworth, a farm boy from Beaver Utah, had a vision of how light waves travel and figured out a way to capture those waves and transmit moving images on that radio. The world never looked back. That television could have been a massively effective teaching tool, but as most of us know, we got “I love Lucy” instead.

Later today, a great television event will take place, we call Superbowl. Millions of eyes will be on that event and advertisers will have a field day with low IQ visual productions designed to entertain and separate viewers from their money and even persuade them to adopt political opinions. I guess this could be argued as an example of human science and a report card for the success of the current occupants of the planet. Based on the way the world is going what does that report card show us about how we use technology?

Today people are benefitting from technology to make their lives easier and more comfortable, and they are entertained to the degree that they may not be aware of reality that has not gone away. Beer, chicken wings, and pizza will be the reality of today. Will our technology save us from the reality that does not guarantee our continued existence?

I am not too optimistic about that.

 

[ReinyDays]

Old news ...

 

[1srelluc]

LOL....A football game sure brings out odd tendencies in some people.

 

[ReinyDays]

I don't watch the Super Bowl ... too many commercials ...

 

[Raynine]

I don't watch the Super Bowl ... too many commercials ...

In a few years it will be beer, processed junk food, and pharmaceutical drug commecials interrupted by brief moments of football.

 

[ReinyDays]

In a few years it will be brief moments of sports interrupted by beer, processed junk food, and and pharmaceutical drug commecials.

You mean a few decades ago? ... 1994 season I put both Championship Games on a single VHS tape ... sans commercials ...

Do you have cable? ... then you pay to have commercials piped into your home ... seems stupid to me but if you're made of money, I guess you pay for commercials all day long ... over, what? 600 stations? ... that's a lot of commercials, hope you're getting what you pay for ...

 

[Anathema]

I won’t be watching the Big Fame (don’t want to get sued by the NFL). My football season ended two weeks ago when Philadelphia beat Washington. I despise the way h the r event has devolved over the decades from a sporting event into a circus with sideshows. I hate the commercials, the halftime show, the terrible rendition of the National Anthem. It’s disgusting.

Now, as for the question buried in the OP’s commercial for the game… technology is not only hurting us, it will be the cause of death of humanity’s death certificate. We’ve spent tge last century and a half creating technology with the idea… “can we?” rather than based on the question that should have been asked… “SHOULD we?” As such we have continually brought into existence the very means of our own destruction.

 

[ReinyDays]

I won’t be watching the Big Fame (don’t want to get sued by the NFL). My football season ended two weeks ago when Philadelphia beat Washington. I despise the way h the r event has devolved over the decades from a sporting event into a circus with sideshows. I hate the commercials, the halftime show, the terrible rendition of the National Anthem. It’s disgusting.

Now, as for the question buried in the OP’s commercial for the game… technology is not only hurting us, it will be the cause of death of humanity’s death certificate. We’ve spent tge last century and a half creating technology with the idea… “can we?” rather than based on the question that should have been asked… “SHOULD we?” As such we have continually brought into existence the very means of our own destruction.

The hammer I use as a carpenter is almost indistinguishable from ones unearthed at ancient Roman villas buried 2,500 years ago ... some things don't need improvements ...

We chose to let ChatGPT think for us ... we're lazy that way ... just has to be better than Democrats, right? ...

 

[Anathema]

The hammer I use as a carpenter is almost indistinguishable from ones unearthed at ancient Roman villas buried 2,500 years ago ... some things don't need improvements ...

We chose to let ChatGPT think for us ... we're lazy that way ... just has to be better than Democrats, right? ...

Absolutely. Some things don’t require improvement, and other things simply don’t need to exist… like the cell phone I’m typing this post on, robotic vacuum cleaners, self-driving vehicles, electric meters that can be read from space, etc…

 

[ReinyDays]

I decided to check on the OP's evaluation ...

Our local ABC affiliate runs ME TV Toons on digital-6 ... Casper the Friendly Ghost ... but BETTER on digital-4:

"Tune in tomorrow, same cat-channel, same cat-time" ... OP needs to cut the cord and tune in to what's on the airwaves ... da da da d ad a da da da da ... BATMAN !!! ... I love catwoman, so beautiful, so sexy, so cat-like ...