The (Un)fortunate Truth of Technology

The (Un)fortunate Truth of Technology

This is going to be sort of a fun, speculative, yet maybe scary reflection on a couple new developments within the tech space.

There was a short video posted on WSO already linking to a short video clip of Google’s new initiative: Project Glass. For those of you who are unfamiliar, check out the video below or the thread here (thanks to JeremyLinMVP).

A couple days ago, Google moved forward with key patents on the design of the glasses, possibly suggesting their seriousness in bringing this product to market.

Here are the pictures:


Source: http://androidcommunity.com/patent-details-project-glass-control-with-r…

Source: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/google-wins-patent-for-project…

I realize that each of the individual technologies that these glasses use is more or less already being implemented (on smartphones, touchpads, etc). I haven’t found any information regarding a timeframe for when that might happen, but I wanted to pose the question to you guys:

Are you happy with the direction that technology is taking us?

I was recently talking to my roommate about this, and he’s just genuinely scared by it. If you’re not afraid yet, just take a look at the video below:


Source: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-57434692-48/honda-uni-cub-promotes…

Now, I don’t actually know if something like this is going to ever be accepted and commercialized (just look at the segway), but after watching the video, it kind of does look a little cool. Unfortunately…maybe my recent viewing of Wall-E has affected my view of the future and I’m imagining a society full of fat, lazy people devoid of human interactions.

Are we moving towards this?


Source: http://the-void.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/walle-e-fat-people.jpg

 

By the point where we all have this sort of shit, well be taking pills that will work like genetic therapy to make us all perfect and well all be tall and muscular and thin and noone will have diseases or be deformed in any way.

“...all truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” - Schopenhauer
 
seabird:
By the point where we all have this sort of shit, well be taking pills that will work like genetic therapy to make us all perfect and well all be tall and muscular and thin and noone will have diseases or be deformed in any way.

Gattaca anyone?

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.
 
seabird:
By the point where we all have this sort of shit, well be taking pills that will work like genetic therapy to make us all perfect and well all be tall and muscular and thin and noone will have diseases or be deformed in any way.

Sounds cool but I think by all of us, you mean a select few

 
Ultima-RDK:
Are you happy with the direction that technology is taking us?
For the most part, yes. However, your question implies that humans are subject to technology, when the reality is that people create technology based on their own vision...and then subject other people to that. Things like the moving barstool are interesting, but given that innovation is desperately needed in other areas, I'd question the judgement of people churning these toys out.
Get busy living
 
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UFOinsider:
Ultima-RDK:
Are you happy with the direction that technology is taking us?
For the most part, yes. However, your question implies that humans are subject to technology, when the reality is that people create technology based on their own vision...and then subject other people to that. Things like the moving barstool are interesting, but given that innovation is desperately needed in other areas, I'd question the judgement of people churning these toys out.

I see what you're saying -- while I agree that the it's people creating technology based on their own vision, it's still going to be an extremely small minority of people relative to the general population creating it, or even capable of creating it. I think what you might be saying is that it's the consumers who ultimately drive what technology is produced or not through their purchasing power.

Nevertheless, at least from my own experience, there's a growing gap between things that the younger generations (not even sure if I can call it 'generation' because what I'm referring to is early teens, etc) and those in their upper 20's, 30s, etc. I was just posing the question that by the time that products such as these come out (if they ever do), if the general user on this forum would be supportive/averse.

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.

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