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I often say I should have been born in the 50's, life seemed simple, easy, and you could buy CC's :) I really don't think I would want to live in a world like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v...eZ38&vq=medium

am I alone in this?

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I'm with you. I like technology but there is a limit for me.

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its a bit extreme for where we are now but we are heading that way.
my mom is in her 60's and cant or doesnt want to keep up with the tech stuff around her.

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I may be the outcast here, but I think that's pretty friggin cool :D

that being said, I wouldnt pay the $XXXXXX it's gonna cost to set it up, but I bet it's pretty fun to play with

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I think it's astonishing, and if they can keep costs down, we may very well see some of this in the near future. I don't think it'll be as ubiquitous as in Corning's infomercial, however. :2

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Doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, your opinion is yours. Don't let them get you down, no matter who they are.

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I always wished I was born exactly 100 years earlier, 1886, only downside is I couldn't imagine no AC! Other than that much better times!!

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:r I see what you did there :r

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I'll be here all za veek, Corey....try the veal. :)

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I love me some veal!!! and I say Well played sir:=:

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it upsets me that she replies "ok yes" .. .one or the other *****!

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At the end, the guy is sleeping on the side of the bed where the wife woke up earlier that morning. No way does that work for me. My side is MY side.

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If it's possible. I think it's damn cool tech. I'd do it.

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as someone without a tv and no text, I agree.

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Most of the stuff in the video is pretty cool, I'm glad I was born when I was.

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:hm

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how much will the electric bill be

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I love technology and am immersed in it. However the one thing I do not like and that I find incredibly unsettling is that most of the technology featured in this video removes any anonymity from our lives. All of the interesting tidbits in this video are seeable by so many others - so many others that want to control your lives, send you advertising based on what you do each day and to influence what you do and what you buy. Yes, that is present now: you use your credit card at the gas pump, then buy a diet pepsi in the store with the same card. That information is tracked and stored and is later used to sell you more goods that are in some way similar to what you've just purchased or that are purchased by other people who use their cc at the pump and then buy a soda.... maybe a % of the people who did the same go somewhere else afterward and then that gathered data "predicts" what others might want to do based on what others have already done... and you are then FED that. That is what we experience now, in the most subtle, ways, but it is there….and getting much, much more pervasive in our lives.

Take a day, or two and see if you can follow what your cc, online shopping or ancestry.com info is predicting and trying to sell you.

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7-10 years, is my estimate for a large percentage of those products. Adapt or die. :cf1

How long did it take for touch screen technology to get where it is today? How much is a touch screen tablet? If you showed an average Joe an ipad or android tablet 10 years ago would they have been amazed? Not to mention the fact that one only costs a day or twos wages? Considering technological acceleration and the speed in which our knowledge base is exploding, the future is going to look..... very different than it does today.

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Forced to agree with this. As someone born in the early 80's, I'm still amazed at how far technology has progressed just in my short life time. Things that I grew up watching as science fiction on Star Trek: the Next Generation, like touch screen tablet computers, are now common everyday items. I can only imagine what we'll have in another 30 years.

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This is what IMHO happens when we have to much Tech. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCPiCeiM3Kc

This happened in my home town at the local mall that I go to when needed.... Maybe if we unplugged a little bit and looked up every once in a while we may actually see whats right in front of us.

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Those fountains should be filled with beautiful lava. Aesthetically pleasing, functionally heating the mall, serving purpose to civilization by weeding out the stupid. Win/Win.
Glass 3/4 full.

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You know it's funny, I think it's cool, and look forward to one daying seing it all about us, apart from the part where the car/shop technology addresses the lady with her name. 'Good morning Jennifer ... Welcome back Jennifer.' That I find really creepy. It somehoe crosses a line. Anyone else? I suppose I could just turn that particulary setting off.

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The one thing that I think would be a huge advantage of all this tech is to clean things up.
Especially on the road in your car. If traffic signage could be displayed on your windshield in the same kind of way we view it now, all the millions upon millions of roadside signs and reflectors could be removed, doing much to beautify our roads and highways.
It'd be a huge cost savings, too.

The problem I have with all the tech is not really the anonymity aspect, but privacy.
Nobody cares who I am unless I'm doing something that's private. This kind of tech is two-way. It comes in and goes out. It'll take kids 15 minutes to hack it, and video of any part of our lives can and will end up shared with everyone in the world against our wishes. And it ain't gonna be video of me making scrambled eggs.

And the gubmint, for our own good, will ~remove~ all non-compliant cars. Replacing them with the new models that are linked to our DNA. So they can see ~exactly~ where you "subversive" types are. ;) it's really "for the good of the country... and for the chilllllldrun, and the environment....."

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Oh, absolutely, Pete.
And they'll send all your traffic citations right to your cell phone. And they'll be able to smell the dead hookers in the trunk. :tf
I'll just stay home, Amazon will bring me everything I need.
Did you see the last 60 Minutes? They're working on little helicopters so they can deliver your order in under 30 minutes. If I build a conveyor from the helipad to the couch, I'll never have to move again. Nobody is gonna want to watch me stink in HD. I'll be perfectly safe. :tu

Here's that Amazon helicopter deal. It starts at 11:00, but the whole thing is very much worth watching.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZjZbJuhPAo

Those aren't hookers in my trunk.

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I want to see the Amazon drones in MN. During the winter. Or duck season. I predict a new teenage sport.
Drone Whacking.

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I think they think they're pretty safe because they're only flying within a short distance of distribution centers in populated areas.
It don't see it working all that well. Jacob and Eric up the street will order a bag of chips just to throw rocks at it. Or to catch it and tie the cat to it.
I don't have a dime in it, I just want to last long enough so you and I can read the stories. And to make up new ways to mess with them and tell the kids so they can have some good, clean fun. :D
Okay, it'll be me. But keep a lid on that.

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Amazon will become insolvent after the 3D printing replicators take over. Well, except for the delivery of Soma and raw material bricks to feed the printers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohcwksrvDOg
Scott?

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They're making a 3D printer head for my CNC machine, so I'll be able to step right in where Amazon left off, amass incredible wealth, buy their helicopters at the auction, suspend myself with bungies from said helicopters, and control the world as a giant sun-blotching stench blob in the sky.
Then I'll post video of you taking a dump on the big screen in Times Square. You'll be an instant folk hero.

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I'm already an instant folk hero with ~both~ of my friends.

Izzy and Greta.

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Then we're half way there already!!! :D

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I'd like to take a peak at the airspace control center for any slightly dense neighborhood. With Amazon, FedEx, Walmart, USPS, 7-11, local retail-reefer-mart, UPS, Big Brother, local pervs, papparazi, local news traffic cams, parking meter maids....... all droning in the same airspace. Gonna be nucknfutz.

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Collision avoidance transponders, all else, at your own risk. Self regulating through expense.

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Anonymity = Privacy......

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As a Florida native, I look at all those magnificent glass walls, glass this, glass that and immediately think of Hurricane Andrew coming along.

From the mid-21st century back to the stone age in less than 12 hours.

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Didn't you see they're described as "durable"? :r