View Full Version : How Technology Inspires Me - Marco is going to love this!
I've been following this guy on YouTube for awhile now and I really like the cut of his jib. I reckon we must have been separated at birth, as we think exactly the same way.
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Much to the amusement of my fellow IT workers I don't, and never have, owned a smart-phone and have no desire to. Technology should be for the benefit of mankind, not corporate profit - something I have been banging on about (mostly alone) for quite sometime, so it's great to watch stuff like this from a Techie of the younger generation.
What do you guys think, are we getting it right or wrong? I fear we will be viewed with disdain in 200/300 years time (if we survive that long) as the generation that selfishly plundered and raped the planet's resources for profit, with hardly a thought about the future sustainability of our consumer driven and wasteful lifestyles.
Some very interesting points there,
I am not a big "social" media user. As stated in the film, a night out when everybody of on Faceplant is prettu unsociable!
He makes some good points about the use of social media.
Otherwise not so good. Advertising is aimed at getting people to buy things they don't need. Corporations only exist to make a profit. Well, Duh! But he is smart and we are all idiots who never twigged until he told us.
Private sector bad, public sector like NASA good and altruistic. Naïve.
Star trek TNG is his favourite show? That says a lot, too. He conveniently overlooks the fact that the ideal society in that show exists only because they have machines that can make anything out of hydrogen atoms in an instant. So they can have all they need and don't need for nothing and straight away. Such machines are unlikely to ever exist in the real world.
I don't agree.
It is because of billions of smart phones and tablets we get cheap and better processors.
Without them you would not have better and inexpensive dacs for audio. No Rasberry Pi.
No inexpensive Wifi, hdmi tv etc. etc.
Smart phones drive the development of operating systems.
Star trek TNG is his favourite show? That says a lot, too.Ha ha, yes, I was a little perplexed to discover that myself.
Some interesting points being made here though.
I must admit that new technology is passing me by at a rapid rate. I have no real desire to have a smartphone although certain apps such as GPS would be handy when I'm driving around London - no big deal really, I stop and study an A to Z.;)
Some people laugh at my mobile phone, so basic it doesn't even have a camera on it but it does what I want. If I need to go on the internet to look at emails I have to wait until I'm back home or, like today, when I'm on my day off.
I laugh when I see people walking around with their faces buried in their phones ignoring people and the world around them. What is so good about someone or something else that isn't in their immediate surroundings? If it's that good why don't they be with them or go there instead?
Smart phones drive the development of operating systems.
I agree with your other points, but not so sure of that. Do you have any example in mind?
UI maybe, but not OS.
I must admit that new technology is passing me by at a rapid rate. I have no real desire to have a smartphone although certain apps such as GPS would be handy when I'm driving around London - no big deal really, I stop and study an A to Z.;)
Some people laugh at my mobile phone, so basic it doesn't even have a camera on it but it does what I want. If I need to go on the internet to look at emails I have to wait until I'm back home or, like today, when I'm on my day off.
I laugh when I see people walking around with their faces buried in their phones ignoring people and the world around them. What is so good about someone or something else that isn't in their immediate surroundings? If it's that good why don't they be with them or go there instead?
Couldn't agree with you more Simon!
I agree with your other points, but not so sure of that. Do you have any example in mind?
UI maybe, but not OS.
Well, how about Windows 10. The new UI has some influence from WindowsPhone.
Otherwise, the end of the desktop computer is closer and closer. Only phones, tablets and laptops remain.
This is the way at least for consumers. These smaller machines are leading to smaller footprint operating systems.
The trend of every new operating system needing more memory and hard-disk space is reversing.
Well, how about Windows 10. The new UI has some influence from WindowsPhone.
Otherwise, the end of the desktop computer is closer and closer. Only phones, tablets and laptops remain.
This is the way at least for consumers. These smaller machines are leading to smaller footprint operating systems.
The trend of every new operating system needing more memory and hard-disk space is reversing.
Ok, but yes, thats the UI not the OS itself, the underlying Windows API is not that much changed from NT, its still the same kernel stack, all thats changed is the UI on top of the Operating System. If anything 10 is much less mobile based than 8.
I agree they may use smaller OS, but its not driven the development of them, small footprint OS's were in use in the past, its just a case of reverting to them.
I am out of the loop, but I would have thought most OS development was still taking place in the area of massively parallel system and distributed systems. Even the visualisation thats all the rage now is hardly new, it was around in mainframes in the 60's
Nice one, Timbo! :eyebrows:
The interesting and important point raised in the video (and what I think you were mainly getting at) is how technology, whilst an amazing tool when used responsibly, is “enslaving" us (or rather read as your ‘average Joe’), and the impact that’s having on our society, on various social levels, not to mention how said technology is adversely affecting the educational and emotional development of children and young adults - especially their levels of literacy.
Essentially, we’re being ‘brainwashed' by technology, and as I’ve said many times before, the net result of that is that we’re slowly breeding a nation of zombies. One only has to look around, at the world today, to see plenty of evidence of that on a daily basis - so the question is: what do we do about this sad state of affairs, before it’s too late??
Most importantly, those of you here who are parents - what are you doing to actively curb your children’s mania for using electronic devices?
Marco.
P.S Apart from posting on this forum, I use no other form whatsoever of ‘social media’.
. . . how technology, whilst an amazing tool when used responsibly, is “enslaving" us (or rather read as your ‘average Joe’), and the impact that’s having on our society, on various social levels, not to mention how said technology is adversely affecting the educational and emotional development of children and young adults - especially their levels of literacy.
Exactamundo ;)
Mark Grant
03-02-2015, 19:30
It is because of billions of smart phones and tablets we get cheap and better processors.
Without them you would not have better and inexpensive dacs for audio. No Rasberry Pi.
No inexpensive Wifi, hdmi tv etc. etc.
I agree :)
Also battery technology has improved to power all these gadgets.
Car technology has advanced recently.
Android Lollipop 5 in your car soon.
http://blog.parrot.com/2015/01/05/ces-2015-parrot-rnb6-the-most-advanced-in-vehicle-infotainment-system/
I like the latest technology but not all the marketing and facebook etc.
I dont need a wifi connected kettle or an app that tells me when the toaster is ready but a mobile phone or tablet as useful as a laptop is great :)
Also Spotify on a mobile is good and the built in cameras get better each year.
Here's a example of what happens whilst you've got your nose stuck in your mobile phone:
http://home.bt.com/news/odd-news/man-too-busy-on-mobile-phone-to-spot-humpback-whale-just-two-feet-away-from-him-11363959864555 :doh:
Classic! :doh:
So what have the mobile phone/technology addicts amongst us got to say for themselves? Come on, 'fess up, we know you're out there! :ner: :D
Marco.
StanleyB
05-02-2015, 22:52
I agree with your other points, but not so sure of that. Do you have any example in mind?
UI maybe, but not OS.
The Maemo and MeeGo OS are examples of that. Commercial politics killed off Maemo, when Nokia decided to hire a former MS top brass to run Nokia. Biggest mistake that they ever made IMHO.
According to Intel, MeeGo was developed because Microsoft did not offer comprehensive Windows 7 support for the Atom processor.
Here we have some phones from my collection.
I am a specialist for real-time stock market prices on mobile devices.
I was invited to Nokia labs in 1995 to do stock market data for the Communicator 9000.
Yes, it was an early smartphone.
On the upper row we have 4 Communicators and N97 mini. Two first Communicators ran on a version of MS-DOS, later Symbian.
On the lower row we have the first "internet in your pocket" phone that barely did WAP.
Then important Symbian phone with color screen and first camera. Then Maemo/Meego and WindowsPhone925.
As a Finn I am sad that the Nokia handset story is almost over. But it was a good 20 years with Nokia smartphones.
http://hoone.com/nokiaphones.jpg
Sold a few Nokia Communicators in my day. Loadsa commison :) plus most of the others you have there. Takes me back to the Nokia 2110i - 1995 - when a 'phone was a 'phone and not primarily a camera or internet thingy.
I've still got a mint, boxed Motorola 7500 from 1995 but you try getting a battery for it. Or the credit card sized SIM card it needs....
currently got 3 phones :doh: i get the boys old yins. currently using a samsung s3 with a moto razr backup and a sony ericsson. double back up..lol
no one ever calls:(
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