I feel that even with all this information we learn, we still don't do enough to try to stop it or even slow it down... We wait until everything is already too far gone or on the cusp to take action.
Post by Popcorn&Candy on May 5, 2021 9:45:09 GMT -5
Just a tangent: science has changed the world. In the 1800's technology was not great. In fact, it was primitive. Yet in the 21st century we have everything in terms of computers and other technology. Our scientists and engineers have made the modern world possible. That, I think, is a great thing.
I think that it is interesting when you look into the realities of a lot of technology. It is often not so much that it is much in advance of many ideas that were about many years ago but that it is the refinement of those ideas and the massive manufacturing capacity of the current world. This coupled with the ability to use the machines produced to develop the next generation of machines even quicker. In theory digital computer theory could have been used in the stone age as it just depends on a state being present or absent but implementation would have needed far more vision than anyone had at the time. I remember seeing adverts which mentioned chips with thousands of transistors and thought 'what if they had millions'. Now think toward billions. Just really an expansion of previous work.
In reality there are maybe not as many new ideas about as we would like to think.
I think that it is interesting when you look into the realities of a lot of technology. It is often not so much that it is much in advance of many ideas that were about many years ago but that it is the refinement of those ideas and the massive manufacturing capacity of the current world. This coupled with the ability to use the machines produced to develop the next generation of machines even quicker. In theory digital computer theory could have been used in the stone age as it just depends on a state being present or absent but implementation would have needed far more vision than anyone had at the time. I remember seeing adverts which mentioned chips with thousands of transistors and thought 'what if they had millions'. Now think toward billions. Just really an expansion of previous work.
In reality there are maybe not as many new ideas about as we would like to think.
I remember seeing a prog comparing the 30's with the 80's, and it was amazing just how much of that era's gadgets were there back in the 30's. Obviously they were vastly inferior, and very expensive, but they were there just the same
A lot of inventions that are just a version of a prior one are sometimes actually created with those who are disabled more in mind, but they market it to everyone! I know sometimes we see things and are like, "who would really need this!?" Well... somebody probably does, and the rest of us are just being silly and buying it for no reason lol
A lot of inventions that are just a version of a prior one are sometimes actually created with those who are disabled more in mind, but they market it to everyone! I know sometimes we see things and are like, "who would really need this!?" Well... somebody probably does, and the rest of us are just being silly and buying it for no reason lol
It does work very much in the opposite direction too. It is that mass market which has now improved things for disabled people. Many disabled people now use ipads or even their iphones for speech / language communication. It is the mass market that has enabled this. Before this time equipment was very specialised and expensive so limited to certain automated tasks or the few that could afford it. Think Stephen Hawking with his big box on the back of his wheelchair with the little screen in front of him and then to now and an ipad you can buy almost anywhere and freely download at least a demo (working) version of specialist communication software. It is my view though that military applications are the ones that drive innovation, particularly outside of mass markets.
Post by Popcorn&Candy on May 7, 2021 10:13:19 GMT -5
Technology is designed by its very nature to make life easier. Very obvious examples:
1. Airplanes - travelling 1000's of miles - going to a foreign country - taking mere hours 2. Trains - travelling 1000's of miles - to travel crosscountry - taking mere hours 3. Cars - travelling however many miles - taking hours/sometimes days 4. Spaceships - travelling countless light years - taking astronauts much quicker through outerspace 5. Computers - with so many functions, computers have countless uses: too many to list
There is so much other technology and transportation, it'd take forever to list. But all these things give us power to control the planet. However, sometimes the planet IS more powerful than us: such as with the weather. We can't control whether it snows or rains or is really hot.
Technology is often taken for granted, but without it we wouldn't have all we have today.
Technology is designed by its very nature to make life easier. Very obvious examples:
1. Airplanes - travelling 1000's of miles - going to a foreign country - taking mere hours 2. Trains - travelling 1000's of miles - to travel crosscountry - taking mere hours 3. Cars - travelling however many miles - taking hours/sometimes days 4. Spaceships - travelling countless light years - taking astronauts much quicker through outerspace 5. Computers - with so many functions, computers have countless uses: too many to list
There is so much other technology and transportation, it'd take forever to list. But all these things give us power to control the planet. However, sometimes the planet IS more powerful than us: such as with the weather. We can't control whether it snows or rains or is really hot.
Technology is often taken for granted, but without it we wouldn't have all we have today.
Can't help thinking you have got that backwards. We are still way behind nature in controlling the planet...
Look at the winds, storms, cyclones, rain, tides tidal waves, volcanoes. We can't produce anything like those...
Technology is designed by its very nature to make life easier. Very obvious examples:
1. Airplanes - travelling 1000's of miles - going to a foreign country - taking mere hours 2. Trains - travelling 1000's of miles - to travel crosscountry - taking mere hours 3. Cars - travelling however many miles - taking hours/sometimes days 4. Spaceships - travelling countless light years - taking astronauts much quicker through outerspace 5. Computers - with so many functions, computers have countless uses: too many to list
There is so much other technology and transportation, it'd take forever to list. But all these things give us power to control the planet. However, sometimes the planet IS more powerful than us: such as with the weather. We can't control whether it snows or rains or is really hot.
Technology is often taken for granted, but without it we wouldn't have all we have today.
Can't help thinking you have got that backwards. We are still way behind nature in controlling the planet...
Look at the winds, storms, cyclones, rain, tides tidal waves, volcanoes. We can't produce anything like those...
You're right: this planet has forces beyond our control. The universe itself has forces beyond our control. We can predict the weather: but we can't decide the weather.
Can't help thinking you have got that backwards. We are still way behind nature in controlling the planet...
Look at the winds, storms, cyclones, rain, tides tidal waves, volcanoes. We can't produce anything like those...
You're right: this planet has forces beyond our control. The universe itself has forces beyond our control. We can predict the weather: but we can't decide the weather.
You're right: this planet has forces beyond our control. The universe itself has forces beyond our control. We can predict the weather: but we can't decide the weather.
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