Modern Tech Versus the Past

CNETNate writes "Most of us assume modern life is the peak of human achievement, but is it really? CNET decided to take a look at the major technologies of the modern world and compare them to their closest equivalent of pre-digital mankind — Facebook vs. dinner parties, World of Warcraft vs. actual war craft, iPhones vs. hills on fire — and the results are surprising. And slightly dumb, so laugh."

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Re:No... WoW vs pretend warfair with sticks for gu

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Sorry. We geeks playing World of Warcraft would not be engaged in killing each other if not for the game.

True. I wonder how many closet murderers indulge their taste for mayhem in a virtual world but avoid it IRL simply because it's permitted in one place and punished in the other. Or, to put it more plainly, how many would do it IRL if they were guaranteed they could get away with it.

"I once stabbed a man to watch him die. And also for 8 honor points."

Killing a mod point for this one (which will, in turn, kill some karma as well TEE-HEE!).

Homosexuals are guaranteed to get away with it in many parts of the USA now. Destroying the taboo certainly has caused an assplosion of gayness. At least on TV, Radio, Movies, Music, and publicly in metropolitan areas of the nation.

I would hope that the increased number of rapes, murders, and incest would not come as a surprise should one group of them become vocal enough to destroy those taboos. If so, perhaps I've put too much faith in my fellow heterosexual, non-rapist, non-murderer, non-incest committing mankind.