Male and Female Imponderables - You & Me & the Bottle Makes Three
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JP- see I love technology ( after all it brought me you guys) Though may I reccomend the book The Footprints of God by Greg Iles...it's amazing and has an interesting idea about where technology will take us.
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."- Albright
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jpstargazer: I don't think technology is taking over, at least not yet. The reason being we're not good enough at it yet. I mean a lot of the features won't get used, at the moment the iPhone is just a gadget that people who like gadgets will buy. It's not really user friendly (especially not the price)
A lot of technology and advancement is good, e.g. pioneering surgery techniques etc, but some things are a bit superfluous, like the iPhone (in my opinion). I mean... it's meant to be a phone right? Do phones need to do all that stuff?
Personally I think the best technology is something that does what it supposed to do and does it well, not something that does half a million things in a half-baked way, with the chance of something going wrong and screwing up the whole caboodle sos it has to be sent to the manufacturers to be repaired at a huge cost.
However, its nice to think that with all the advancement soon everyone could live the space-pirate kind of life a la FF.
In any case, we're not into soul stealing territory yet... unless all the computers are secretly vastly intelligent and are already planning their move...
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I like technology, but possibly not the consequences. We are becoming more and more isolated from each other, which to hear me say is funny. I'm one of the shyest people around. I HATE talking to people I don't know, often don't even like talking to people I do know, and yet I hate the isolation of technology.
A LOT of people these days walk around with their cell phone plastered to their head, their iPod on, etc. Even if I wanted to strike up a conversation they are in their own little world. It's not horrendous now, but it will continue to get worse as the old notions of propriety and politeness are lost on the new generations.
OMG, I have to stop now. I feel like an old fuddy-duddy. Eek.
Edited to add: there's also privacy issues with everyone and their brother carrying around a camera as part of a phone these days. Poor woman walking down the street with her dress stuck in her nylons now has a greater possibility of becoming the laughing stock of the internet. Can't we be humiliated in a smaller scale sort of way? (not speaking from experience, but pondering the possibilities)
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
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I think the isolation is also to do with the dangers of our society, or at least people being more aware of them. There is the threat of paedophiles, rapists, murderers etc. The idea of 'don't talk to strangers' is now completely ingrained, so now its 'don't talk to anyone because anyone could be strange'
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Originally posted by Kelkhil:
Tristan - Yeah I still have my Atari, Colleco Vision (with the Atari adapter), Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Play Station 2 (gave the 1 to my nephews a few years back), X-Box and now a Nintendo Wii!
*realizes that he just admitted to an extreme case of Geekness*
Holy Cats! It's a frakin' Video Game Junk Yard, er, Museum!
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Originally posted by jpstargazer:
In an effort to stimulate discussion, I guess I'll pose a question (not really gender-related and may belong in some other section):
With Apple's unveiling of the iPhone, which makes calls (of course), has access to the internet, does maps, weather, stocks, etc., takes pictures, sends email, plays music and video, and makes julienne fries, is technology taking over? Have we lost part of our souls to these devices, or is technology as of late opening doors for the betterment of humankind? I suspect it's a bit of both, but I'd like to hear other opinions.
Mebbe one, mebbe the other. But what's fer certain, is that since prehistoric times technology has offered humankind constant pondering over moral choices from which it seems consistantly to opt wrongly.
EDIT: Hiya Fitch!
"Well, here I am...Does that seem right to you?"
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Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
Holy Cats! It's a frakin' Video Game Junk Yard, er, Museum!
No way man! They all still work!
Kelkhil
The Shirtless Forsaken
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Hi!
Yeah, technology is a mine-field. Soon we will be making killer robots to send into battle, and then they will turn on their masters...
On a happier note, I found a hat in my room that I have had since I was nine which is more or less EXactly the same as Jayne's cunning one. *feels the height of fashion*
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Originally posted by Fitch66:
Personally I think the best technology is something that does what it supposed to do and does it well, not something that does half a million things in a half-baked way, with the chance of something going wrong and screwing up the whole caboodle sos it has to be sent to the manufacturers to be repaired at a huge cost.
But if that were truly the case we would have no computer industry at all...
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In any case, we're not into soul stealing territory yet... unless all the computers are secretly vastly intelligent and are already planning their move...
Not as long as souls are the purview of us Vampires.
"Well, here I am...Does that seem right to you?"
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Originally posted by Fitch66:
I think the isolation is also to do with the dangers of our society, or at least people being more aware of them. There is the threat of paedophiles, rapists, murderers etc. The idea of 'don't talk to strangers' is now completely ingrained, so now its 'don't talk to anyone because anyone could be strange'
Possibly, but walking around with your iPod on or talking on your cell phone makes the world a MORE dangerous place.
And everyone is up in arms about health information privacy and yet they tell the world, or the coffee shop as the case maybe, what conditions they have as they are talking on their cell phone.
Nevermind the ease of identity theft due to the internet.
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
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afternoon JP. fitch
JP - you are the first person to know what it is since I got it done 
technology - If our society focused all of the energy and time and money they use for the latest gadget (either purchasing or researching) on space exploration, I would be typing this from a bunk on Mars right now.
~jimi
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