Anyone else think technology changes too fast?

[Bringin Fappage Back]

Eh oh!

Technology changes to fast, just when you think your adjusted to something......something new comes out.

[LiquidIce]

Think about this:

Humanity has become the hostage of technology, because only fast technological progress is able to transport millions of tons of goods, grow millions of tons of food, for the billions of starving mouths. If humanity is to grow and expand, technology will grow exponentially.

Going primitive isn't the answer. Getting education is. Too many fucktards that have NO FUCKING idea how a radio or battery works cause too many problems. Shitfuck, I could make loads of cash if I invested some into diagnostic equipment and like two PC's, because todays average Joe know shit about computers, not to mention electronics, mechnical things etc. Too bad he was busy fucking a sock when he had chem and physics classes.

[dal7timgar]

Originally Posted by Bringin Fappage Back

Eh oh!

Technology changes to fast, just when you think your adjusted to something......something new comes out.

Originally Posted by LiquidIce

Think about this:

...only fast technological progress is able to transport millions of tons of goods, grow millions of tons of food, for the billions of starving mouths. If humanity is to grow and expand, technology will grow exponentially.

Going primitive isn't the answer. Getting education is. Too many fucktards that have NO FUCKING idea how a radio or battery works cause too many problems.

An interesting and worthwhile subject. Education is part of the answer but it also means recognizing when the technology has not really changed in a way resulting in improvements but has only been altered to look and behave differently.

Consider the SR-71 Blackbird. Engineers at Lockheed started working on that in 1959 and it started flying in 1964. What kind of computers did thay have in 1964? But what sense does it make to watch a television commercial about a car in a wind tunnel in 2008 when engineers could design a machine capable of over 2000 mph 40+ years ago? The changes in the bodies of the cars are not really technological they are just stupid marketing bullshit.

But how much of that is happening in software now? The new version has some features that you may not even want to learn but they change something that you used in the old version so you have to relearn what you already knew how to do. A lot of the changes are useless and stupid.

I read last year that Intel was supposed to come out with an 8-core processor some time this year. I thought, "That IS really impressive but I really don't give a damn." I may buy a used one in two or three years. LOL

The true changes that are improvements with real benefits would not be hard to cope with if we didn't have to spend 90% of our time readjusting to useless variations that nitwits keep telling us are improvements.

DT

[TehWTF]

that.
Plus, a lot of recent technology makes the struggle to learn useful information easier but the desire is somehow lessened. People are less willing to be held accountable for their actions, so there are more ways to escape punishment, and there are more ways to catch them. It's not just knowledge that is power, because there's too much useless information out there. Still, I guess you could say we really are following our natural path, we're evolving.

[LiquidIce]

I will agree to the bullshit campaign with bullshit improvements. People sometimes just want new-looking stuff, it's the marker of your social position. I'm still guessing that most of these people just don't know shit about what they're buying, I'm still using my 6 year old PC and am only considering a new one because I need to use photoshop alot and this one barely manages.

But like my father once said (complete idiot): "Hey, Vista i newer, so it has to be better". Yep, they just trust that if someone puts something new on the market, then it HAS to be improved in some way. He knows shit about computers, but he's not justified since it's all easy to learn if he moved his ass from the TV chair.

Also reminds me of the lady who baked her cat in the microwave, 'cause she was probably sucking jock dick when she had physics at school. Hell, if I don't know how something works, I either leave it alone or try to figure it out, not put my beloved feline companion inside.

[Mantikore]

technological advancements has obvious accelerated in the past.

1.5 million BCE- stone age
3500BCE-wheel
3000BCE - bronze age
1200BCE - iron age
800CE - gunpowder
1436 - printing press
1595 - microscope
1693 - calculus
1698 - steam engine
1796 - smallpox vaccine
1800 - volta's pile
1867 - dynamite
1895 - wireless
1928 - antibiotics
1934 - nuclear power
1940's - computers
1960's - internet


though i reckon it would slow down as there fewer and fewer important discoveries made

[dal7timgar]

, I'm still using my 6 year old PC and am only considering a new one because I need to use photoshop alot and this one barely manages.

Buy a used 2 year old computer and install a new hard drive. Maybe keep the old one as the D: drive. A two year old computer should be a dual-core 2.5 GHz at least. You could try GIMP for Linux. There may be a Windows version.

DT

[Star Wars Fan]

Originally Posted by dal7timgar

Buy a used 2 year old computer and install a new hard drive. Maybe keep the old one as the D: drive. A two year old computer should be a dual-core 2.5 GHz at least. You could try GIMP for Linux. There may be a Windows version.

DT

GIMP works on Windows...

Originally Posted by TehWTF

It's not just knowledge that is power, because there's too much useless information out there.

can't say what is "useless" and "not". I mean there's peoples hobbies that are 'useless' too...

[ignis invictus veritatis]

Better get used to increasing speed of technological advancement, 'cause it's only getting faster:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/a...ml?printable=1

[dal7timgar]

I think artificial intelligence is mostly BS and it it has a chance it is a considerable way off, like 40+ years.

Computers are von Neumann machines. They are high speed symbol manipulating machines. The problem is they do not understand what the symbols mean. They manipulate the symbols according to a program created by people that understand the symbols so it gives the impression of intelligence and it performs the manipulation faster than humanly possible. Complex software with multiple decision points becomes difficult to predict because the permutations occur faster than human thought processes.

But though you can store a movie on you hard drive and play it on your computer try finding a program that can watch a movie and explain what it is about.

DT