The Day Einstein Feared Has Finally Arrived

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UPDATED: Thursday, March 19, 2015 04:35
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SIGNYM

Saturday, March 7, 2015 8:02 AM

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Niether - it's criticism. As people age they become more and more reluctant to change, to learn new things, and often become crabby, lazy simpletons. They live in the past because it's easier.

YO! DUDE!
That's what YOU think!

I work in a lab ... an analytical lab. We use computers all the time for things you haven't even dreamt of. Not only do we use computers, we have to change with the technology. In my working lifetime we've gone from wet chemistry with some instrumentation, to instrumentation, to advanced automation, to databasing the data and fully networking our lab, to exploring crowd-sourced environmental data (from citizen iPhones).

I've troublshot more "technology" than you can shake a stick at. For sure, I know more about "technology" than you do, and probably more about computers. (HINT: Have you built your own? Ever written a progam?) Clearly, I know how to access the internet. I can do searches. I can view Twitter all I want.

What I DON'T do is check my Twitterfeed 1200 times an day, or constantly check in with my FB friends, or post the latest drunken stupor on Instagram.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

ANONYMOUSE

Saturday, March 7, 2015 7:43 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
What I DON'T do is check my Twitterfeed 1200 times an day, or constantly check in with my FB friends, or post the latest drunken stupor on Instagram.

Finally, someone's said it!!! This is what's currently driving me mad at work!

I work in a warehouse, loading white goods onto trailers and vans. This by necessity is a team effort, the team consisting of a picker, a forklift driver (who moves the goods to the loading bay once they're picked), a scanner to check the goods are correct before loading, and two loaders, of whom I am one. But what kind of "team" has the other loader and/or the scanner twittering away when they're supposed to be working?! I once saw my fellow loader on his phone doing whatever in the middle of loading a washer onto the trailer! I've seen a forklift driver doing the same WHILE HE WAS DRIVING!!! GAAAHHH!!!

I hate what smartphones and Twitter/Facebook/whatever have done to our society! Einstein was right!

AURAPTOR

Saturday, March 7, 2015 9:01 PM

The lure of the 'net, of being connected, via social media or just checking stocks,scores, weather, etc... can be addicting. I see it everywhere. At football games,concerts, what not... folks " connecting " with their friends and family, the ones who AREN'T there, more than those who are actually sitting next to them.

It's when people do this sort of stuff while driving, ...

SECOND

Saturday, March 7, 2015 11:19 PM

http://xkcd.com/1348/

“Before the Internet we watched DAYTIME TV. Do you realize how soul-crushing it was? I'd rather eat an iPad than go back to watching daytime TV.”

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

AURAPTOR

Sunday, March 8, 2015 2:18 AM

The parade of " Judge Judy / Divorce Court " type shows during the day time has melted the psyche and soul, of so many millions of Americans.

1KIKI

Sunday, March 8, 2015 3:36 AM

The fact that you think those are standout achievements only emphasizes your backwardness. It's funny to hear you boast about things so definitively when you have no clue who you are talking with... wait... I mean it's just empty-headed bravado.

And you know this - how? The only thing I get out of your post is how quickly and easily you post lies and claim they're facts. You revealed something about yourself maybe you should have kept hidden. So, is this like a lot of your other 'facts' you so proudly post?

FWIW - in 1974 I was backplaning a computer. Oh, you don't know what that means? Poor baby. Four years later I was writing a LIMS. Don't know what that is either? Look it up. Now I'm upgrading our system to (securely) network with 'the cloud'.

And that you are so adamantly defensive of you and the others who ceaselessly tweet drivel - dude, you don't seem technological. You're just plain addicted.

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

1KIKI

Sunday, March 8, 2015 4:45 AM

AAANNNd you completely ignored the rest of my post - including what I'm doing NOW.

Figures.

But then I already knew you were a lying cowardly asshole.

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

SIGNYM

Sunday, March 8, 2015 5:29 AM

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The fact that you think those are standout achievements only emphasizes your backwardness. It's funny to hear you boast about things so definitively when you have no clue who you are talking with... wait... I mean it's just empty-headed bravado.

And you do... what with your "computer skills"?

Hack secrets from the NSA?

I doubt it!

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Spoken like a true grandma - "Those darn kids! Get off my lawn!"

So, when you have nothing substantive to say, you resort to snark.

Do you do anything more than play with iPhone apps?

I doubt that too.

But hey, feel free to boast of your prowess here, if you have any.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

SIGNYM

Sunday, March 8, 2015 7:06 AM

Oh, MRG probably thinks he's part of a "Twitter revolution", like the Arab Spring. Some people think that if not for Twitter, the uprisings wouldn't have happened at all. What most people don't realize is that half of the Egyptian hashtags originated in Israel. It's incredibly easy to tweet misinformation.

Another problem with Twitter, FB, and Youtube etc is that they can create "flash-in-the-pan" movements. Remember Kony 2012? The Ice Bucket Challenge? What did they accomplish?

Nothing.

Merely following/ retweeting/ clicking on a button isn't effective. People actually have to DO SOMETHING MEANINGFUL in real life... like go to a demonstration and risk getting shot at maybe, or go on strike, or at least stop buying a product.

So, on a more metaphysical level, when I said that people were mesmerized by their own digital reflection, I didn't just mean that they were living their lives through their own duck-faced selfies on the inet.

"In the old days", you had to get along with your family, your neighbors, your classmates, your co-workers no matter how "out there" they (or you) were. You had to listen the same lamestream news and watch the same TV shows, no matter how much you disagreed with them.

But with a world-full of opinions available now, it's far too easy to surround yourself with like- minded people: select the tweets that you want to follow, the friends you want, the opinions you agree with. Think of the most obscure or illegal or just plain bizarre activity, and you can find a nice comfortable group to do that with.

Yes, the internet has huge potential for communication, but most people don't communicate with people who are different, they communicate with people who are the same. They stick with the agreeable and the convenient, and thus they lose the ability to communicate at all.

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On another note, I don't make any claim to be a computer expert, but I know someone who is - certainly more than MRG thinks he is.

This person, who knows pretty much everything there is to know about computers (including AI) is rather disparaging of them, and the use that people have made of them.

One of the things he said is that Einstein didn't have a computer. Neither did Newton. Or Maxwell. And yet, we still use their equations.

The other thing he said is that computers are like guns in the hands of babies. They allow people to calculate all kinds of technological things (like nanoparticles or AI) that they don't understand and can't predict.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

SIGNYM

Sunday, March 8, 2015 4:12 PM

You have to hold your fingers away from the lens, Jesus, c’mon.

Ok, I have to say: this was funny.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

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