Did you even bother to read the Time article, or are you just browsing the headlines while in the checkout line at the grocery store?
The article(s) in Time talk about children being spoiled and parents giving them too much. At no point in the article is technology, the Internet, etc. mentioned, brought forward, or implied to be the reason for any of this. Instead the article points out that Baby-Boomer parents are to blame for giving their children altogether far too much.
Please, read the articles in magazines before you include them in your own tirades
My Ex works for a company that manufactures the sensors/pumps/valve controls etc that are used in both clean water and sewage treatment plants. A year and a half ago they issued a statement that a good portion of their hard-coded circuits were not Y2K compliant and could fail. This could result in interruption in flow or failure to control flow (which could cause other problems). It went on to further say that they did not have the resources to manufacture enough replacement parts, nor have the trained staff if they did have the parts and as such wanted all of their customers to create contingency plans. As their stuff is used widely across the globe.. I'm not so sure everyone is going to have water the morning after.
Hey Diablo was fun, but yeah, once the beast was dead, it got to be a little dull. I think with the new four "zones" they have planned it could be more fun, but for me Everquest is where it's at. Everquest... what D2 wanted to be
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Rise of the Nanobots
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Going along with the article to agree that the entire nano-technology is possible and that this will then result in a surge of machines able to take raw materials and produce cheap and strong products, what happens to all of the people who actually work at production for a living? What do they do then? Suddenly, the people who have to be creative for a living are effictively slaves to their job as that can't be "replicated". Now all those factory workers sit at home on their replicated couches, eating their replicated pork rinds, with 100 appliances all on powered by replicated solar highways. Meanwhile the actors, musicians, writers, etc. are stuck still working. Okay maybe that's a little off base...but unless we are going to provide things for free (like food, housing, etc.) all the people who do any sort of production work would be jobless. Imagine taking almost all of the workers in Detroit and laying them off. It would be the resurgence of a new Luddite era. Even something as simple as the "McJob" becomes replaced. You walk up to a counter, swip your smart card, and your Big Mac, Fries and Coke are all "made" right there for you. Huge cultural changes will have to take place before this kind of technology can be used. Everyone compares this to Star Trek. Isn't it funny that in the future money is no longer used but they never show you what everyone does outside of Starfleet. If money and financial gain is no longer an issue (as you have a replicator) why would people feel the need to "work".
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Yeah I was using a TI 994A back in the day. I later got a C64 and then my dad was issued an IBM XT by his job.
We both thought we'd never fill that 10MB hard drive.
Did you even bother to read the Time article, or are you just browsing the headlines while in the checkout line at the grocery store?
The article(s) in Time talk about children being spoiled and parents giving them too much. At no point in the article is technology, the Internet, etc. mentioned, brought forward, or implied to be the reason for any of this. Instead the article points out that Baby-Boomer parents are to blame for giving their children altogether far too much.
Please, read the articles in magazines before you include them in your own tirades
by Egan Spengler in Ghostbusters: "Print is dead"
My Ex works for a company that manufactures the sensors/pumps/valve controls etc that are used in both clean water and sewage treatment plants. A year and a half ago they issued a statement that a good portion of their hard-coded circuits were not Y2K compliant and could fail. This could result in interruption in flow or failure to control flow (which could cause other problems). It went on to further say that they did not have the resources to manufacture enough replacement parts, nor have the trained staff if they did have the parts and as such wanted all of their customers to create contingency plans. As their stuff is used widely across the globe.. I'm not so sure everyone is going to have water the morning after.
Hey Diablo was fun, but yeah, once the beast was dead, it got to be a little dull. I think with the new four "zones" they have planned it could be more fun, but for me Everquest is where it's at. Everquest... what D2 wanted to be
Going along with the article to agree that the entire nano-technology is possible and that this will then result in a surge of machines able to take raw materials and produce cheap and strong products, what happens to all of the people who actually work at production for a living? What do they do then? Suddenly, the people who have to be creative for a living are effictively slaves to their job as that can't be "replicated". Now all those factory workers sit at home on their replicated couches, eating their replicated pork rinds, with 100 appliances all on powered by replicated solar highways. Meanwhile the actors, musicians, writers, etc. are stuck still working. Okay maybe that's a little off base...but unless we are going to provide things for free (like food, housing, etc.) all the people who do any sort of production work would be jobless. Imagine taking almost all of the workers in Detroit and laying them off. It would be the resurgence of a new Luddite era. Even something as simple as the "McJob" becomes replaced. You walk up to a counter, swip your smart card, and your Big Mac, Fries and Coke are all "made" right there for you. Huge cultural changes will have to take place before this kind of technology can be used. Everyone compares this to Star Trek. Isn't it funny that in the future money is no longer used but they never show you what everyone does outside of Starfleet. If money and financial gain is no longer an issue (as you have a replicator) why would people feel the need to "work".