Apple's Steve Wozniak: 'We've lost a lot of control'

[coloumb]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/12/08/steve.wozniak.computers/?hpt=Sbin

Interesting article - The Woz always cracks me up - especially when he comments about "kill the people who invented these things". As many engineers I've worked with - I can completely understand his frustration - reminds me of this dilbert comic [which is hanging up in my cubicle at work]:

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-02-09/

He is correct - we are heading towards a society that will be completely reliant upon technology to do our bidding, walk our dogs, cook our meals, drive our cars, do our work, etc [I'm thinking we'll be overweight, riding around on floating chairs, and drinking Slurpees all day].

I think the biggest stumbling block will be to ensure the engineers who design the products be KILLED by public execution if the product fails to work as designed. That should be enough incentive to ensure the product actually works rather than pushing out some piece of crap filled with flaws...

 

[alfa147x]

lmao at "Apple's" Steve Wozniak...

 

[rivan]

He is correct - we are heading towards a society that will be completely reliant upon technology to do our bidding, walk our dogs, cook our meals, drive our cars, do our work, etc [I'm thinking we'll be overweight, riding around on floating chairs, and drinking Slurpees all day].

The bolded stuff all sounds pretty sweet.

With all the free time I'd have with work out of the way, I'd enjoy being able to cook more.

 

[SunnyD]

He is correct - we are heading towards a society that will be completely reliant upon technology to do our bidding, walk our dogs, cook our meals, drive our cars, do our work, etc [I'm thinking we'll be overweight, riding around on floating chairs, and drinking Slurpees all day].

Instantly thought of Wall-E when I read that blurb.

 

[Kaido]

"And eventually, we are going to have it doing every task we can in the world, so we can sit back and relax."

Always thought that was the goal of technology?

 

[Kaido]

Instantly thought of Wall-E when I read that blurb.

I had a Wall-E moment the other day...I was sitting in the lazy boy, drinking my protein shake with iPad in hand, and had my Roomba rolling around vacuuming the floor.

It hit me that moment...that scene from Wall-E when they're all so overweight they have underdeveloped bones, using their holographic screens on floating chairs with robots cleaning underfoot

 

[JS80]

I had a Wall-E moment the other day...I was sitting in the lazy boy, drinking my protein shake with iPad in hand, and had my Roomba rolling around vacuuming the floor.

It hit me that moment...that scene from Wall-E when they're all so overweight they have underdeveloped bones, using their holographic screens on floating chairs with robots cleaning underfoot

If technology can do all the crap it does in Wall-E, wouldn't technology solve obesity?

 

[BurnItDwn]

I would love if technology would do all the meaningless boring chores for me so I could spend more time doing what I want to do....

Would probably help me lose a good deal of weight since I'd have more free time and would therefore bike more and spend more time in front of the heavy bag...

 

[olds]

<--- Apple

 

[AdamK47]

I'm sick of hearing about Apple.