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We hear of the great achievement in technology but it's just exaggerations. Supportively nasa sent men to the moon but were never able to "go back", and their talking about going to mars. I wouldn't call that a scam, that is plain lies.
I mean... NASA did "go back" five times to be exact.
At my work no. The printer was on 24/7. We probably consumed an entire forest worth of paper a day.<>
That’s just a few I can think of off the top of my head.
+1 We just did a refi on the mortgage. The last ones generated a huge stack of paper. This one was done all electronically, signing a few papers and scanning them then downloading the results. Most were just electronically signed and never printed.
We are moving forward.
I must admit I like on line exchange, but not so much a fan of the smart phone. When it fails I refer to it as the worst failed technology since the invention of the lead pipe. (Which poisoned the Roman Empire and brought on the Dark Ages.) I predict a similar fate for our civilization due to solar flares.
+1 We just did a refi on the mortgage. The last ones generated a huge stack of paper. This one was done all electronically, signing a few papers and scanning them then downloading the results. Most were just electronically signed and never printed.
We are moving forward.
I must admit I like on line exchange, but not so much a fan of the smart phone. When it fails I refer to it as the worst failed technology since the invention of the lead pipe. (Which poisoned the Roman Empire and brought on the Dark Ages.) I predict a similar fate for our civilization due to solar flares.
I don’t see the smart phone going anywhere anytime soon. It’s does too much and it’s too adaptable. Even 3rd world refugees own them.
What I don't like about smartphones is the virtual buttons (except power on/off and volume). It takes me longer to text than it does to talk, so that actually wastes time.
But the biggest time-waster is when people play on their smartphones in situations (e.g. while waiting for laundry) that in the past, they would be: playing with toys, reading a book, etc. (depending on age and interests). Staring at a screen while the world goes by you can't be a good thing.
You are referring to planned obsolescence. It's a catch-22 though, If companies built products that could last a long time like at least a decade they would be incredibly expensive to buy in the first place.
If you have to upgrade every year then it is really not an efficient machine or device. Smartphones need to become more eco-friendly as every year there is a new one that totally doesn't warrant the upgrade of the previous model.
I have an HP Desktop from Aug 2007 that matches the performance of a Work Laptop that was bought in 2016. I recently bought a 4gb Memory Ram for the 10th Anniversary of my HP desktop. It went from a 6gb to 10 gb.
I bought personal laptop so when i go on vacation i don't have to take the work laptop. I will just leave teamviewer on my work laptop to access it. The HP laptop with similar specs to my work laptop cost around 320 to 370.
I cannot concur with car maintenance, as the electronics have actually added to my mechanic trips.
The next one will have been built prior to 1984, before fuel injection.
And Google maps/mapquest have failed me on a number of occasions.
Versus 1990? I can hop in my car, turn on the Waze app, and get the best route with real time traffic and turn-by-turn instructions to any destination in the country. Before smart phones with GPS I can remember having to stop at a gas station to buy a map when traveling in unfamiliar locations.
Oh yes, just look at cell phones for proof of that, I remember when cell phones came out, it seemed like the technology changed weekly, they got smaller and smaller, new features kept us amazed all the time, but then, at a certain point, it all stopped, once we reached the smartphones we have now, the technology has pretty much plateaued, I cant remember the last 'big thing' in cell phones that really made me take notice, they just keep churning out the same basic phones with tiny little changes every year.
Where is the 3D holographic interfaces, pop up holographic keyboards, flexible phones, etc etc?
I believe technology is being suppressed when it comes to cell phones and probably everything else to some degree. There comes a point in technology where it must be suppressed or it would become 'too beneficial' to the little guy, a good example is the invisibility cloak, they have been working on this for awhile and recently I saw they had created a fairly decent one, but this is something they can NEVER allow the public to have, if they did it would be a disaster for law enforcement, when people could just go buy one of these and then go rob 10 banks, since they would be invisible, they could never pin it on them.
There are many other areas of technology where the same logic applies, the public will never see it if its 'too good'.
Interesting reading about the INvention Secrecy act of 1951, this gives the details of what Im talking about.
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