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Modern Tech Versus the Past

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bring-back-gladiators dept.

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. The problem with cell phones by sgt_doom · · Score: 0, Troll

    But cell phones causes one to reevaluate their fellow man (or Ameritard). Pre-cells, one hoped all those surveys demonstrating how totally ignorant your fellow citizens were was just so much balderdash --- now we know they were all too true.

    At least we Americans have the bullet train. Oops! Nope, that's the Japanese and French. Well, at least we Americans have really cool seaport architecture. Nope, that's the Danish. Damn! We're backwards here in Amerika!