What technologies would you "uninvent"?
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Zoom-boing
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cell phones. Sure, sure great in an emergency and if they were just used that way, ok. But they're not and they've made people dumber and ruder.
Rozman
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Anything that was responsible in the creation of Chaz Bono !!!
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Democrats like Douger.
Interesting question but hard to nail down as all things are a mixed bag. If I had to answer it would be computers in early schooling - but again that is a use of technology. I do know my favorite, the camera.
Edit: Automation that turns humans into robots and removes the creative element of building and doing.
"Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided." Neil Postman
"The history of the twentieth century can be summarized--excessively briefly--in five propositions: First, that the history of the twentieth century was overwhelmingly economic history. Second, that the twentieth century saw the material wealth of humankind explode beyond all previous imagining. Third, that because of advances in technology, productivity, and organization--and the feelings of social dislocation and disquiet that these advances generated--the twentieth century’s tyrannies were the most brutal and barbaric in history. Fourth, that the twentieth century saw the relative economic gulf between different economies grow at a rapid pace. Fifth and last, that economic policy--the management of their economies by governments--in the twentieth century was at best inept. Little was known or learned about how to manage a market or a mixed economy." J. Bradford DeLong I. Introduction
Three authors worth reading on topic.
"We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end." Lewis Mumford
"Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community." Clifford Stoll
"There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory." Neil Postman
Edit: Automation that turns humans into robots and removes the creative element of building and doing.
"Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided." Neil Postman
"The history of the twentieth century can be summarized--excessively briefly--in five propositions: First, that the history of the twentieth century was overwhelmingly economic history. Second, that the twentieth century saw the material wealth of humankind explode beyond all previous imagining. Third, that because of advances in technology, productivity, and organization--and the feelings of social dislocation and disquiet that these advances generated--the twentieth century’s tyrannies were the most brutal and barbaric in history. Fourth, that the twentieth century saw the relative economic gulf between different economies grow at a rapid pace. Fifth and last, that economic policy--the management of their economies by governments--in the twentieth century was at best inept. Little was known or learned about how to manage a market or a mixed economy." J. Bradford DeLong I. Introduction
Three authors worth reading on topic.
"We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end." Lewis Mumford
"Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community." Clifford Stoll
"There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory." Neil Postman
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starcraftzzz
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None because no technology is bad; what is bad is how humans decide to use it
skipper
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Deep space communication probes. Someone or something one day may reply.
eflatminor
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Yes, because we'd all be better off had we never evolved beyond spears, knives, bows and arrows...
starcraftzzz
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Yes, because we'd all be better off had we never evolved beyond spears, knives, bows and arrows...
Yes because it takes exercise to use knives and spears!! We'd be thinner, look sexier, and be bad ass enough to combat each other hand to hand!!!!
eflatminor
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Yes, because we'd all be better off had we never evolved beyond spears, knives, bows and arrows...
Yes because it takes exercise to use knives and spears!! We'd be thinner, look sexier, and be bad ass enough to combat each other hand to hand!!!!
A lefty that shuns evolution. Interesting.
Quantum Windbag
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why are you afraid of technology? Do you think un inventing something will fix anything?
whitehall
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The concept kind of dovetails with the greenie revolution's favorite program sponsored by the History Channel "Life after People". The series is soft on the reason all humans vanish at the same time but it is full of graphics and digital stuff that Speilburg might have done and it's no doubt the green revolution ultimate pipe dream. The planet comes back after being abused by pesky humans for millenniums, or does it? According the the script, humans evaporate leaving ...gasp....the nuclear generators on line and gradually a meltdown occurs just when Bambi is learning to graze in Central Park.
dilloduck
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No but if we uninvent something really big like the wheel we will have a purpose in life. To try to improve on how we handled things the first time.
Big Fitz
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Short sighted. Want us to be back to bows and arrows and swords? Or ban them too.
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I hate to sound soft but I don't think I could have survived in an age before A/C.
jmasterson
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Microwave popcorn
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Nothing can stink up an office faster.
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