Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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12 August 2009
07:1027012You make it sound so exciting Rick - I liked the bit about 3-D movies on the inside of your eye-lids - WOW !
I think technology is fantastic and I wish I could afford more, but I can't, so I settle for what I do have.
The trouble is though, that the less we can afford it, the more we'll be left behind.
Roger
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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12 August 2009
07:4927016Ah Jeane very good one that. Loved it and so true. The technology does all the work for us now. Exercise not needed now
By the way just to add this bit...there is a new advert running on television now for Volvo...where their anti crash technology automatically stops the Volvo car from hitting the one in front in city situations. I dont know the full spec but I imagine the function only operates at city crawl speed but quite a step forward nonetheless. Will this be a useful tool or will it make us more lax and less vigilant. I expect it will do all three.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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12 August 2009
16:3527045Maybe I'll have to swap my old Volvo for a new one - S80 anyone ??
Roger
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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12 August 2009
17:4027046Yes you'll have to keep up with the technology Roger..heaven forbid any of us grey ghosts falling behind!
One thing though...I ran myself and my few groceries through the Tesco thing again this morning. I think there are about 8 tills and there is one member of staff looking after it all and it all seems to be working fine with lots of people going for it. What it means though of course is that where once before they would have employed 8 people, now one will do the job. I dont think I know of a single instance ( scratching my head in deep thought here) where technology has created jobs outside of the own factory location.
12 August 2009
23:3427063I do think that Google Latitude (www.google.co.uk/latitude) shows the dark side of all this tech stuff. Personally, I love digital entertainment and gadgets but the thing that spoils it for me is the ability to abuse it for spying and theft. Google Latitude uses mobile phones and similar devices to be tracked and allows others to see "where their friends are". Oh yes - imagine that! Just imagine authorities being able to log in to Google and see exactly where you are, any time of day or night. Once again Google is building the tools that allows our privacy to be exploited, quite possibly, as far as it can be. I mean what is next? A permanent live link to YouTube broadcasting our every word and every action? Google always pushes these things way too far, like they did with the street views.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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13 August 2009
06:4327080I guess in a way, it's a bit like medical research and advances, they push that to the boundaries, although having said that, I can't think of a bad aspect of medical research - more power to their elbow - the prosthetic elbow that is, and the knees, legs, hands etc.
My Dad lost his leg in the Second World War and had a simple "wooden" one, which allowed him to walk again and drive, but the new prosthetic legs (as sadly seen so often now with our soldiers) are truly amazing.
Roger
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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13 August 2009
10:2627107Roger
very sadly wars have proved to be excellent for technolgical advances.
Rick
I will have to have a look at Google Latitude it's not one that I know but it sounds worrying. What I find though is that anything that is given enough time - about 15 years - becomes the norm so what seems extreme now will be taken for granted by the next generation. The fact that the government could propose recording all text, email and mobile phone messages without a major civic uprising supports this. I see from your film postings that you liked Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'. The fear of technology being embraced to the point whereby we don't even question it is scarier than the Big Brother scenario. I'd recommend Neil Postman's book 'Amusing Oursleves To Death' for a slant on this - I think you'd enjoy it.
Mark
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Technology destroys people. We’re already cyborgs (pacemakers, hearing aids) of a sort, and are well on our way to the type of Big Brother dystopia of the techno-utopians. And look at the state of us. Our toxic, sedentary lifestyles are causing industrial-scale afflictions of cancer, mental illness, obesity, heart disease, auto-immune disorders and food intolerances, along with those slow killers, loneliness, clock-watching and meaninglessness.
Guest 1467- Registered: 30 Jan 2015
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Sure, but whats your point?
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Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Lewis Jones wrote:Sure, but whats your point?
Give them time Lewis.........Rome wasn’t built in a day.r
Do nothing and nothing happens.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Apparently next up is facial recognition technology on self service check outs to help with age restricted items being purchased.
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Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Perhaps that will stop them asking me for ID to prove I’m over 18! Come to think of it that will probably not help as my youthful looks might confuse the tech too!
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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depends if your on the police data base bob. lol.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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zrehman809 wrote:Technology destroys people. We’re already cyborgs (pacemakers, hearing aids)
Thank goodness for them they help people live and the deaf to hear, by the way you forgot cochlear implants.
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