Damn books and the alphabet. There was a time when people had conversations with each other. After mass literacy, everybody got absorbed into their newspapers, magazines and books. Written language has caused all of us to be self-absorbed jerks. Besides, written words don’t express emotion as well as the human voice.
That’s why we invented emoticons.
It’s one of the things I would really like to change about my phone. Why have a camera if the pictures are so grainy they’re embarrassing? Why not have a good camera at the ready, in your phone? How can this just be declared immaterial for humans generally?
Feel free to use it. I coined it in the 90’s.
What it was like to: Deep sea dive with Jacques Cousteau, Dance, Laugh to some good clean jokes, Fall in love, be married, Have 6 kids and a dog. The stuff we don’t do anymore. Good old movies like Jaws and Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. Cartoons that were dumb and funny not high tech and evil.
I miss old school tv. Funny clean sitcoms, The old MTV before it was ruined. National Geographic, The Wonderful World of Disney. The real news good, bad or otherwise. I didn’t watch divorce court growing up or plastic surgery shows. Celebrity Cribs and Cops and shows on life inside jail. Everything is so negative and when Jerry Springer came around I thought this has to be the lowest it can go but No! We actually have sunk lower. Now if you get artificially inseminated and have 8 kids you get a tv show. That is just plain ignorant.
I am not impressed with the misuse of technology. It has made us weak and needy. It has made us afraid to go outside. It makes people go under the knife so they can look like a star. It has made us dependent on the government which now regulates technology. Nobody knows how to BE anymore.
It makes us feel uneasy if we are not hooked up to a device, tuned into a device or playing on a device or talking on one. No wonder we are all so screwed up. We were made for greater things then playing with electronics and letting the government tell us what to do, what to think and how to vote when we all know it’s rigged.
I for one am not handing over my brain or drinking the cool aide. I remember life before technology and it was better in many ways. We had much more freedom.
You only say that 'cuz it’s true.
But I’m okay with it, because a LOT of the stupidity can be avoided, and I’d just as not throw the good out with the bad.
I saw a pre-screening for Transformers 2…I was INTENSELY disappointed. This is a Hasbro property, designed to sell toys, and they chopped off more than half the market with Testicle jokes, dogs fucking, and racist characterizations. My 6 year old boys were DYING to see it.
So when it came out on DVD, I ripped it, cut 5 minutes our of it, and made it something they could watch. Their reaction: It kinda sucked.
This made me happy. No matter what crap they throw on a screen, if you raise them right, they won’t necessarily watch it.
ETA:How on EARTH can you screw up a movie about transforming robots? (Oh, yeah, NASCAR)
I’m not sigging what you said because I agree with it. 
Edit: Which I don’t, in case there was any doubt.
It depends on the cell phone plan. On mine, I get free long distance calling within the U.S. (as long as it’s within the included minutes), but each text message costs ten cents.
With my phone we pay five bucks a month for unlimited texting. On a typical day I receive maybe ten texts and send half as many. If I’m seeing a girl I get maybe thirty texts a day. So it’s worth it.
I’m in my fifties and not a geek but I have found that new technology has improved the quality of my life no end; and I look forward to future improvements to help me enjoy my old age in the future.
Its not just the direct results remember, but the indirect ones as well, an incredible choice of foods, beers and wines from all over the world in my local supermarket for example.
Also the internet, cable t.v., video games, mobile phones and that great unsung hero which we always overlook, the A.T.M.
These may not be new tech now, but compared with the stuff we had when I was growing up its science fiction.
I’m seeing a girl – she’s my wife. We’re on the same plan. Neither of us text.
Your loss it’s a great line!
I think you meant to say:
“Technology is flawed in that it is not used in the way I think people are supposed to use it.”
:rolleyes:
And, really - too much free speech on the internet? You posting from China or something?
Technology doesn’t make me feel old, but it has, at times, made me feel really, really out of it. I saw an iPhone for the first time in a bar in Tirana, Albania and was fascinated. Everyone else (ie, the Americans I was with) were like “you’ve never seen an iPhone?!?!?!” wtf I lived in a village in Bulgaria, like anyone I knew had an iPhone.
Anyway, technology advances are awesome. I love my iPod. It can do anything! It has a radio and a video camera and all my music and a pedometer and I’m teaching it to do my laundry next.
brb, making covert drug deals on my government-issued cell phone. (Bastards won’t spring for an iPhone, though.)
My target demographic texts more than yours does.