I have never contributed to any/. discussions before, though I have been a proud member of Slashdot for around two years now. But when I read this article, my heart just dropped. I am young, 21, but I feel that death is an inappropriate end for anything, let alone an icon of the genre that I so proud myself for being a part of. I am a computer geek. I am a nerdy, dork. And I am proud of it. Douglas Adams was as much a part of the inner atmosphere of mine, as is my collection of computer manuals, my Neal Stevenson collection, and my science related books. In this time of continuing technological progress, I often comfort myself with the words of Drexler and Kurzwiel, along with other visionaries, who believe that at the rate of progress today, and the likelihood of theses technologies exponentially increasing, death by disease and old age should no longer be a serious threat to those currently living.
Douglas was a fun, cute, funny nonsensical clown. I didn't know him personally, but I knew his books, and the way they made me feel. I felt smart and cool reading him, and he became a part of what I identified myself as.
I feel the world has lost a great man and there is little more to say about it.
Now I will plug cryostasis. I hate death and right now Cryo-preservation seems the closest thing to an insurance policy against it. Why should we be the last people to die? I personally feel everyone should try to save money for the procedure and be prepared for the unexpected. I will forever mourn the losses of great men needlessly lost because inadequate planning and forethought.
I hate to see you go, Doug. You really will be missed.:(
Technology is used to solve problems. It only makes sense that people have worked to solve the biggest problems first. Now that the big problems such as plumbing and what-not are taken care of, the technology created today tackles smaller problems... such as inconvienience. To say that people today are less innovative than those from 50 years ago is not entirely true. I am willing to bet that if we did not have plumbing today, our engineers would think it up just as quickly as they did in the past. We should consider ourselves fortunate that we do not have this need anymore, and we should stop looking gift horses in the mouth.
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I have never contributed to any /. discussions before, though I have been a proud member of Slashdot for around two years now. But when I read this article, my heart just dropped. I am young, 21, but I feel that death is an inappropriate end for anything, let alone an icon of the genre that I so proud myself for being a part of. I am a computer geek. I am a nerdy, dork. And I am proud of it. Douglas Adams was as much a part of the inner atmosphere of mine, as is my collection of computer manuals, my Neal Stevenson collection, and my science related books. In this time of continuing technological progress, I often comfort myself with the words of Drexler and Kurzwiel, along with other visionaries, who believe that at the rate of progress today, and the likelihood of theses technologies exponentially increasing, death by disease and old age should no longer be a serious threat to those currently living.
:(
Douglas was a fun, cute, funny nonsensical clown. I didn't know him personally, but I knew his books, and the way they made me feel. I felt smart and cool reading him, and he became a part of what I identified myself as.
I feel the world has lost a great man and there is little more to say about it.
Now I will plug cryostasis. I hate death and right now Cryo-preservation seems the closest thing to an insurance policy against it. Why should we be the last people to die? I personally feel everyone should try to save money for the procedure and be prepared for the unexpected. I will forever mourn the losses of great men needlessly lost because inadequate planning and forethought.
I hate to see you go, Doug. You really will be missed.
Technology is used to solve problems. It only makes sense that people have worked to solve the biggest problems first. Now that the big problems such as plumbing and what-not are taken care of, the technology created today tackles smaller problems... such as inconvienience. To say that people today are less innovative than those from 50 years ago is not entirely true. I am willing to bet that if we did not have plumbing today, our engineers would think it up just as quickly as they did in the past. We should consider ourselves fortunate that we do not have this need anymore, and we should stop looking gift horses in the mouth.