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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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  1. Re:Poisoning people with cancer... by paiute · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...which is what much of modern chemotherapy amounts too will be looked back on like we look on bloodletting to keep your humors in order.

    Except for the little fact that, as much as chemo sucks and as much as it closely resembles taking just enough arsenic mixed with mercury topped with cyanide to wish you were dead, it is backed up by clinical studies and has been found to work.

    Chemo: sucks but works
    Leeches: suck and don't work except in special cases as temporary therapy for reattachment of fingers and toes

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  2. Re:One Thing I Miss by jez9999 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You, sir, have had a VERY different childhood to me. :-)