Humans Circa 2015: Stupid (?)

[Mayerling]

My problem with technology is "stop trying to improve it if it works fine!!!"

Facebook and Twitter update their apps twice a month. Sorry, but I don't have time to learn the new things, it was fine as it was 5 years ago.

New operating system every other year? I don't have time for that, yet, if I want to keep using my devices, I need to keep up otherwise support won't be available anymore.

That and programmed obsolescence.

I agree Sir John. My collections of VCR tapes, of music casettes, of records show that there is too much push to "improve everything". Basically it is the greed of the manufacturers and their fellows that do this - to keep up we have to pay for everything again and again and again.

If we could do it, the world needs a 100 year stoppage of machine improvement and computer improvement. The only things not touched are anti-hacking and anti-malware improvements (with a corresponding increase, around the globe, of legal attack on the hackers), and continued improvement in energy saving devices, medical devices, and anti-pollution activity. Otherwise it ends for a century. We'd all be happier, except for the fat cats.

Jeff

[c.d.]

I still remember the absolute sh*t storm I created a few years ago on these boards when I politely suggested that posters should at least make a reasonable attempt at correct spelling and grammar and that posts written in text-speak were bad.

c.d.

[c.d.]

I often see people leave their trash on a bench when a garbage can is plainly visible just a few feet away. I guess it requires a little too much effort.

c.d.

[Robert]

The ones who walk along the street without looking where they're going, eyes glued on their little computer devices....

[Karl]

And they'd none of them be miss'd...

[GUT]

The ones who walk along the street without looking where they're going, eyes glued on their little computer devices....

And buds in their ears so they can't hear

[GUT]

I agree Sir John. My collections of VCR tapes, of music casettes, of records show that there is too much push to "improve everything". Basically it is the greed of the manufacturers and their fellows that do this - to keep up we have to pay for everything again and again and again.

If we could do it, the world needs a 100 year stoppage of machine improvement and computer improvement. The only things not touched are anti-hacking and anti-malware improvements (with a corresponding increase, around the globe, of legal attack on the hackers), and continued improvement in energy saving devices, medical devices, and anti-pollution activity. Otherwise it ends for a century. We'd all be happier, except for the fat cats.

Jeff

I don't so much object to the new technology as the failure to continue to support the old.

Some music I have on

Record
Reel to reel
8Track
Cassette
Mini disk
CD
MP 3

Of course now it's the same with computers, XP was the best OS in years, no longer supported, 8 a joke, still getting to grips with 10.

[Karl]

I don't so much object to the new technology as the failure to continue to support the old.

Some music I have on

Record
Reel to reel
8Track
Cassette
Mini disk
CD
MP 3

Vinyl is still being produced, though. It's having something of a renaissance, though digital downloads still constitute the biggest part of the market by far.