Newer Bigger Better Posted April 6, 2012 Author Share Posted April 6, 2012 And in 5 years when they are talking about phones you can roll up and put in your pocket you're gonna be like "why would i need that shit?"... How about for once, we will be the generation that doesn't talk shit about how "kids are getting dumber because of the technology". It hasn't been proved true yet, it probably never will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fat ralphy Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 no maybe not dumber, but no doubt there are negative effects to some extent, just like there are positives. the other night i was out to dinner, family with two kids sits down next to us....both kids bust out their own personal dvd players and watch flicks for the remainder of the time there. to me thats too fuckin far, no wonder your kids jacking big to hentai beast porns, he been online since 3 years old and you see the technology as a babysitter of sorts. just a hypothetical but its relevant. though no doubt these things would be fuckin dope if you were travelling and wanted to learn the ins and outs etc. or to improve work situations or school etc. not bagging on it entirely, just saying its fucked if the intention is to rock these 24-7. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortFuse Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 So he totally slaughter "monsieur" i mean I thought Google was smart. On top of that anyone see how much flipping cheese was on his sandwich! not to mention the lack of coffee in his coffee cup... So what was this vid all about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipod90 Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 Cool technology that I will hopefully never buy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2004WasAgesAgo Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 In less than 5 years we're all gonna be like "Remember smart phones?" I had a nokia in highschool, I thought I was on some next level shit when i changed the faceplate to match my timberland windbreaker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2004WasAgesAgo Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 How about for once, we will be the generation that doesn't talk shit about how "kids are getting dumber because of the technology". It hasn't been proved true yet, it probably never will be. Maybe they're not dumber but from general observation they've become lazier than we were and im not talking about playing outside, take porn for example: When I was 10 I had to sneak out to my lounge room at 11:30 at night to watch a foreign film and patiently wait to see some very mild nudity, or do that thing where you put a playboy (which you had to go through all kinds of stealth operations to obtain) in between the pages of like MAD magazine. Nowadays a 10 year old has an iphone and can download whatever his little fetished heart desires in about 10 seconds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 I'm not even on some 12oz inside jokery.... ....but.... GOOGLE = COPS +++ 2004 didn't even happen according to the kids I meet these days, fucking hell. I looked after some inlaws children recently, little fucks were OK but they lived and died by the battery or power supply at hand. Once I pried them from the house they loved every minute of it, but before I even got the key in the ignition, they had a back up hand held game console thing - fucking hell. When I called their toy a 'gamestation' I was relegated to old man status. I sort of drifted off at the end there. Fuck this shit though. Seriously. Some cunt you're meeting up with and you're going to call that cunt and talk to him/her all the way up to the point that you are actually face to face? Then what? Talk about kony'esque videos? Conversation is a dying art. More than half the arguments in the world could be solved over a beer. And still I type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crime stoppers Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 i enjoy getting lost in a new city...a lot. i find the best shit totally by accident, with something like this people will have the spontaneity taken out of their lives. these would be very cool, but very distracting from living a normal life/ ifuckingwantone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newer Bigger Better Posted April 6, 2012 Author Share Posted April 6, 2012 You realize that you don't actually have to put directions into your phone right? You have a phone with GPS right now. Did it stop you from getting lost? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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shai Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 Write algorithm, start company, get rich, make "Snow Crash" come true...so, what now? A land war with Apple? Mandatory cybernetic implants at birth? "Do no evil" is kind of vague and relativistic when you consider how much leverage Google has accumulated. Oh, right, the glasses. I've been wearing them since the second grade, so yeah, I fucking hate glasses. They're a shitty medium, but I'm biased. Then there's that whole motion sickness/peripheral vision thing...they can render a seamless environment then stream it at high speeds? Cool...oh, how much Dramamine would I need to use it? Not cool. Let's consider people who text while driving. Doesn't matter if their hands are free, now they can be 150% self absorbed! Just trust me on this one. Even though hardware has vastly. improved, I don't see this being any more of a game changer than VR was in the 90s. NBB will now argue with me because he loves Google and arguing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newer Bigger Better Posted April 6, 2012 Author Share Posted April 6, 2012 maybe not. but when they first started talking about a self driving car everyone thought it wouldn't work and it was bullshit too. Then one drove by me on mission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Taco Steve Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 http://imgur.com/HNGO4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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shai Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 maybe not. but when they first started talking about a self driving car everyone thought it wouldn't work and it was bullshit too. Then one drove by me on mission. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge The Grand Challenge was the first long distance competition for driverless cars in the world; other research efforts in the field of Driverless cars take a more traditional commercial or academic approach. The U.S. Congress authorized DARPA to offer prize money ($1 million) for the first Grand Challenge to facilitate robotic development, with the ultimate goal of making one-third of ground military forces autonomous by 2015. Looks like the Man has them working on Skynet now. I don't hate Google but they aren't exactly the benevolent/benign company that they claim to be, either. "Do no evil" doesn't imply "do only good," much less full transparency or accountability. Here's a good one- why did Google even bother entering the Grand Challenge? It probably wasn't for the money, 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Autonomous cars have been around since the 50's, maybe even the 40's? Mainly driven by military aspirations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasfacevictm Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Mainly driven by military aspirations. What exactly is a military aspiration? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 In this context, aspiration could be accounted for by 'ambition'. Aspiration itself is a term used for 'hopes and dreams'. Simply put, the idea of a self driven vehicle as a war device has been around for a long fucking time. War breeds technology. I would assume that the military of the world is very much interested, if not already a part of, the advancement of this sort of technology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gat Bush Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Old people had to make a conscious effort to learn things. Most information is now just a query click away, which google then records and uses to make itself smarter. I know I'm wearing an aluminum hat, and I do my best to just ignore this kind of stuff. It just bums me out people will accept this with the most open arms, and despite my efforts I won't be able to ignore it anymore. That I will have to have daily exchanges with people wearing these stupid fucking glasses, and that it can/will be the norm in the near future. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 If you haven't read "Snow Crash," you should. There's. a character called the gargoyle that wears a computer suit with goggles, which allows him to "live" in the Metaverse (think Second Life but encompassing the entire web.) DARPA funds some really crazy projects...the thing that gets me is that Google doesn't need DARPA's money. In fact, I bet a lot of the cool shit they show off was developed by their employees in their spare time, at least to some degree. The Grand Challenge was just good PR for their Google Earth car, which they developed so they could have a bunch of these autonomous drones constantly driving around, filming shit for Google Earth never getting tired...it's the panopticon come true. That has way more military/LE potential than something like Big Dog. Intel is becoming the real battle, fighting is increasingly less and less important because no one wants to destroy potential assets. Why? Simple- war is going into the private sector, and the private sector's primary goal is what? Accumulation of assets/capital...therefore, blowing shit up is bad business. It's not hard to see where this is all headed if you apply a little imagination to what's happening in the world. Hell, you don't even need to do that, it's all in the news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/benhams_disk/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA Check out some of the projects they fund and have funded in the past....the future as it was envisioned when I was a kid is coming true, except it mainly seems to be the bad stuff. I read through the thread a little more carefully, and I realized that a lot more people on this site have smartphones than I would have expected. At the moment I don't have a cell, but when I do (not often) I use Google Voice linked to a burner. I do have a Blackberry, which I would use for VOIP but since it's a CDMA phone that's out of the question. The problem is that it's hard to pick and choose which aspects of technology you're willing to embrace. I didn't trust Facebook at first, and still don't...but once people stopped emailing me I caved in and made an account. I don't use it like a lot of people do...for the most part I use it to keep in touch with people since it has most of the features of Gmail (which, ironically, I also use). No matter what I use, I always follow the cardinal rule of never putting anything incriminating out there online. If I have even the slightest concern that something might sound funny if it was overheard/documented, then I wait till I can say it in person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
you can microwave bacon Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 ROBUTS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newer Bigger Better Posted April 13, 2012 Author Share Posted April 13, 2012 ROBUTS why not zoidberg? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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