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Is anybody else ever in awe of our common day tech?

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i'm still amazed by cameras, tvs, radio, camcorders, airplanes, internet, and phones. truly a remarkable time to be living in. however, sometimes i wish i was alive back in the 1600s. dont know why
 
Indoor plumbing is awesome! You just push a level and your shit is gone! No more digging trenches or dodging the neighbor's night soil.
 
The Lincoln MKX we have at work never ceases to amaze me. I mean the sync, digital dash, and touch screen are all pretty amazing but the ass chillers top all that.

What's more amazing than the tech itself is how dependent we've become on it. Watch how insane people go when they have no internet access.
 
mmntech said:
The Lincoln MKX we have at work never ceases to amaze me. I mean the sync, digital dash, and touch screen are all pretty amazing but the ass chillers top all that.

What's more amazing than the tech itself is how dependent we've become on it. Watch how insane people go when they have no internet access.
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I still have magazines.
:sneaky:
 
It's really easy to be amazed at technology when I can use my android phone to call my Dad in Japan on Skype, watch movies on Netflix, quickly browse the internet, and listen to music on the web without having to change devices.
 
Until we master interstellar travel or any other Star Trek technology, we're really just a bunch of civilized animals living on a flying rock.
 
Jeff7 said:
Now we just have very intricately-cut (doped-silicon) rocks. 😛
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That's an interesting comparison. Consider each flake that's chipped off of an arrowhead, vs. each transistor on a modern cpu.... roughly about 40 vs. almost a billion?

I guess the arrowhead wins in terms of power usage and noise.
 
System_Mechanic said:
like you didnt ask similar to your parents/grandparents when you were 5?
Its like that every generation, c'mon now, wtf?
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What I'm getting at was the fact that she was looking at a bracelet that was coiled like a phone cord and she was puzzled because she'd never seen anything like that around a phone.
 
yes, it amazes me how kids nowadays are too busy playing with their gadgets rather than go out and play with other children.
 
xSauronx said:
yeah, great clip.

i love technology, but im frustrated when i come across things that dont treat me like its 2011: its 2011, people, get with the program.

/amazon and google own my soul
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I agree with this as well. I see this often in cars... the computers in them, even the fancy touchscreen ones are all quite sluggish and old by comparison. I'm spending upwards of $30k on a 2011 car, and you can't match what I can find in an old iphone for less than $100? It's impressive when you think of all the stuff in your car, but less so when you think of what's in your pocket.
 
i sort of thought we'd be more technologically advanced by now, especially growing up watching lots of sci-fi. hell we were supposed to be in flying cars by now and have self aware machines, maybe moon bases and more advanced robots, and chemicals that completely transform/recycle our waste products.

of course holding reality accountable to science fiction is silly but, yeah I really thought we'd be a lot farther along by now rather than just smaller form factor versions of the same ideas we've had for a long time.
 
Notice how pretty much all of the advances listed are in the field of computing in one form or another. Sure we've made advances in other fields as well such as medicine. Like other posters mentioned, however, I think we're still a long ways away from a true golden age of technology. Specifically: Better energy sources, better methods of propulsion, significantly increased longevity, space travel. The last is a huge key because, until we can accomplish that, humans aren't really in control of their destiny as a race. One errant asteroid or cosmic accident can pretty much wipe us out of existence very quickly with no trace that we ever existed; all the computer and medicinal technology in the world wouldn't save us at that point.

Just my thought. However, yes, I am very impressed by the advances of computer and medicine tech in the past 20-something years.
 
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