Posted on 06/08/2016 6:21:13 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Computer print outs never last (photos) the photographs I keep of my family are all kodack type quality and they go back 100 nplus years....some are silver flash type photography. the new pixel crap is just that....easy to let reality fade as liberals and rinos want it....in order to teach blank slates what they want.
I have no God-given talents except computer programming, and that will be taken over by AI in 2030.
Well, I can write, and I can hit it pretty good.
So there's that.
Oh, great. I can buy socks online while being driven.
I like the concept of having a self driving car. But I like the concept of being able to choose, because I like driving. And having a car that drives you, but belongs to someone else who runs what controls the car is repellent to me.
It smells of statism.
Weird. I know your MIL.
This is a conversation from a video game released in 1999, before the World Trade Center bombing, the patriot act, Facebook, etc. It is a science fiction spy story called Deus Ex, set in the 2050s. When I first heard this, I thought it was clever dialog. Little did I know sixteen years later I would be living in that world.
Oh, come on. The government will just give us money, we won’t have to work.
“Nobody has figured out what to do with a growing surplus population.”
Robots could build and operate cities underground, undersea and in outerspace; with hydroponic gardens.
The costs of production should drop toward just the cost of materials and energy.
Driverless cars will take you anywhere the government wants you to go.
Unless your prints are dye-transfer, and they’re not, the dyes in them will fade over time and the color will end up being painful to watch. The reason black and white prints last practically forever is that metallic silver don’t fade.
And there’s no reason your digital images will go away is if you save them as files.
I remember that concept. Seemed like a good idea.
But here we are, two years later, and not a peep.
But I am trying to remember her name.
Mendacity? Nah. But close. :-)
Complicity? Nah. That makes me feel guilty.
Felicity? Nah. Too good to be true.
Necessity. That is IT! Hi Mom!
And millions starved when computerized food production and distribution failed.
We’re all going to be couch potatoes, with computers and robots doing everything for us.
IOW, the method for extinction of the human race is almost upon us.
Even Uber will be a thing of the past, since, our computer and robot overlords will do all of our errands, after they figure out what our needs are.
We’ll finally have 0% unemployment, since, nobody will need to be working, and only those working will be counted in the employment figures, but, since people will cease to look work, they will all not be counted.
I don’t think I’ll be around to enjoy “our” new future (unless somebody or some computer figures out how to stop aging), but those left behind will be happy with their Utopia.
It will come.
And the much more interesting future is almost here. Imagine the wonderful opportunities for imports with defaults of the biggest governments and fuel at $20 per gallon.
;-)
Everyone assumes that Kodak was blind...I am not one of those.
Kodak went exactly where the board of directors wanted it to. Nobody...and I mean nobody is THAT stupid at the COE level. At some point, the board of Directors decided that they were going to end Kodak. They had a pile of businesses that were successful (i.e. chemistry) and a bunch of others that were doing OK, and some that were a mess.
The sold off some of their core businesses to focus on a failing business (imaging). They had a bunch of patents that they developed, they funded research on such things while they were flush with cash, but management had no understanding of what value they could be in the out years.
Yet they members of the Board knew. How? Because they were all members of the boards of other companies who could profit from the use of those patents without paying a hefty license fee to Kodak, and so Kodak’s fate was sealed.
Eastman Chemical, Geospatial to ITT, Blood Analyzers to J&J, and on and on. Until all that was left is what was Kodak of the 20th century, in the 21st century and doomed to bankruptcy. Exactly what they wanted and their IP would go for pennies. Eastman Kodak had huge liabilities in Kodak Park East and KP in general. There is all sorts of nastiness in the ground in KP-E and a huge tax burden for KP-West... Bankrupt there is nobody left to sue and the taxpayers get stuck with the cleanup.
The thought of AI sexbots passing the Stuxnex virus to humans is terrifying!
It’s always a pet peeve of mine when I hear “Moore’s Law.”
70% of jobs vanish all while hyper-advanced, more expensive cars enter an already over-regulated, over priced market? Uhm. No. Plus, I like to drive. I like to own. “Renting” transportation is the sad, lowered expectation of an inner city socialist.
This also assumes that cities will remain, even as millineals are leaving the cities. Uber is not a small town or long distance business model. Plus, If I’m an Uber driver transporting one person to work, that is, at best, a net zero improvement over current traffic levels. It just means I’m spending $400 a month forever on a cab instead of a 36 month car payment.
Solar power? It drives UP the cost of power in every market it enters. And delivers less power. I’ve been hearing about solar fantasies my entire life.
3D printing is nice, but my wife can’t fix a paper jam. A 3D printer would piss her off. Big time.
Nope. Nope. Technology has a tipping point and the younger generation’s interest in all things that avoid technology should raise eyebrows... They sold more typewriters last year than in the past ten.
I have photographs....the negative’s of some.....digital prints do not last.....UNLESS you use PHOTOGRAPHIC quality paper(KODAK quality)....your defense of the “digital/electronic “file” is laughable as they can be altered as a negative can’t. Contrast in quality and longevity between the two is a joke.
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