Raidernation Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 When I did my CSYS computing we were the first yeargroup that didn't have to shade in punch card and send them away to see if they worked. We had a whole 2 Commodore PET computers. Used cassettes or the "amazing" 5 1/4" Floppy discs! At that time in my life I never expected I'd ever own a computer, but I might get to use one at work, one of those that took up a whole room and hade huge tape reels. Shit we still had a dial phone at home with a 4 digit number. And I can remember when there were only 2 TV channels and it was all black & white Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 As a kid i remember the internet first being introduced and not really knowing what it was or how it would change the worldAs a kid I remember the first colour telly on our street and going to watch Princess Anne's wedding in Gerry Murphy's hoose. The rate of change in technology and its benefits over this past half-century has been brilliant and I welcome more of it. Those who opposed it were called Luddites in an earlier century. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebhoy123 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Internet porn is brilliant. f**k trawling the streets looking for scud mags in bushes. That's all I really have to say on the matter. I used to think WWW stood for the World Wide w**k It will be Google that f**k us all. They have been buying up AI and tech firms like there's no tomorrow right now, including military tech firms too. They are Skynet but with a more colourful logo. We should be worried more about us relying too heavily on technology. The "man in the street" has no clue how it all works or is controlled, the recent NSA revelations in the US proves that those in the know have complete power over us mere mortals. Every part of our lives are basically controlled by technology, either overtly or by us simply feeling lost without it (anyone who has lost a phone or not had internet for a few days will testify to this) Still, you can now see videos of cats playing pianos, so it isn't all bad. There's been a HUGE change in the last 15 years - some good, some bad.... The internet has been a great thing but I really wonder if it's going to be "allowed" to continue as the giant wild west that it is - I foresee much heavier regulation in the future... Certainly from a work point of view, I used to travel all over the world ( I'm an engineer ) and we had no laptops or mobile phones back in the day.... Not even GPS to find the company / hotel you were going to and things ( work ) still got done. Nowadays, I have a Blackberry from work which beeps every two minutes with pointless emails and I get called all the time - whether I'm at work or not ! I certainly don't feel any more efficient than I did when I never had to explain where I was / what I was doing and why I was doing it and how long it would take ( numerous times a day ) ... I don't have a tracker in my car but you can bet your bottom dollar I will soon - we all will.... I seen something on TV which monitored how you drive so you're insurance company can collect data and analyse it to see if you really are as safe a driver as you say you are.... Communication is much easier nowadays of course which is a good thing - SKYPE etc for me ( whilst away from home ) has been great and being able to check the football scores ( for example ) when overseas is magic But I don't want to be " enslaved " by technology, which I feel some people are already. I've never had a facebook account as I'm pretty sure people don't really give a sh1t about what I had for dinner - and I've never felt the need to tell them.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebhoy123 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Should they add AI to these ? http://www.fantasydoll.com.au/gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I used to think WWW stood for the World Wide w**k There's been a HUGE change in the last 15 years - some good, some bad.... The internet has been a great thing but I really wonder if it's going to be "allowed" to continue as the giant wild west that it is - I foresee much heavier regulation in the future... Certainly from a work point of view, I used to travel all over the world ( I'm an engineer ) and we had no laptops or mobile phones back in the day.... Not even GPS to find the company / hotel you were going to and things ( work ) still got done. Nowadays, I have a Blackberry from work which beeps every two minutes with pointless emails and I get called all the time - whether I'm at work or not ! I certainly don't feel any more efficient than I did when I never had to explain where I was / what I was doing and why I was doing it and how long it would take ( numerous times a day ) ... I don't have a tracker in my car but you can bet your bottom dollar I will soon - we all will.... I seen something on TV which monitored how you drive so you're insurance company can collect data and analyse it to see if you really are as safe a driver as you say you are.... Communication is much easier nowadays of course which is a good thing - SKYPE etc for me ( whilst away from home ) has been great and being able to check the football scores ( for example ) when overseas is magic But I don't want to be " enslaved " by technology, which I feel some people are already. I've never had a facebook account as I'm pretty sure people don't really give a sh1t about what I had for dinner - and I've never felt the need to tell them.... Absolutely this. Systems and 'big data' for fucking everything. This thread is depressing me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I have a Blackberry from work which beeps every two minutes with pointless emails and I get called all the time - whether I'm at work or not !Your BBerry has an off button as done mine. Just use it. I switched mine off on Friday and will switch it on when I wake up in the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Your BBerry has an off button as done mine. Just use it. I switched mine off on Friday and will switch it on when I wake up in the morning. That's not the point though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebhoy123 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Your BBerry has an off button as done mine. Just use it. I switched mine off on Friday and will switch it on when I wake up in the morning. I pretty much do now to be honest but in my last job I just had it on all the time - The equipment I covered was on a 24/7 basis and although there were 4 of us - There was 1 guy " on call " at nights / weekends ( a rota ).... All of us had at sometime been the poor bugger standing beside a machine at 3am not knowing what to do so for that sake ( to help your colleagues out ) it was left on.... I did used to get calls from customers who would ask " mikebhoy, who's on call " ? in the middle of the night as well though !! " There's a f..k..g on call number to phone " was my usual polite response The last mob I was working for though were a big American company and they would send emails to everyone in the middle of the night ( our time / working hours their time ) about things that were nothing to do with us over here... that's when I started switching it off !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry94 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Was watching the trailer for the new movie Robocop (about robots in the future surprisingly enough) today and it got me thinking. Will we produce technology that will one day become too advanced for us to handle? or to a stage where it has a detrimental effect on how we function and think as humans? When you think about it, you could say technology has already reached a stage where it's having a negative effect on us. Being only 19 I've always been familiar with things like Ipods, internet and other things that weren't around 30 or 40 years ago and it always seems as if life was simpler before we became so obsessed with new gadgets and the improvement of instant communication, etc. Anyone else think we will bite off more than we can chew? If you are interested in this sort of stuff then I'd suggest having a read of 'Physics of the Future' by Michio Kaku. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Physics-Future-Inventions-Transform-Lives/dp/0141044241 I think our civilisation go two ways to be honest; a utopia where capitalism has died out and we are masters of our own planet or some retarded terrorist w****r will get access to something pretty powerful and set us back a long time. I doubt that technological advancements will lead to isolation and destroy human interaction though. When television was first invented there was a belief that some people wouldn't bother going on holiday or exploring the world because they now had the ability to see it on a screen in front of them but so far humanity has resisted that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebhoy123 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Some people barely leave the house and spend most of their time watching tv. It's not far off it. Your not wrong.... BUT.... I know someone who is housebound and the Tech revolution has helped them out a lot - Most recently, using the internet to order shopping from the supermarket to be delivered, so it gives them much more independence.... There are some people ( lazy people ) who will hardly ever be out from now on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I don't think robots will ever gain sentience to the point that they destroy humanity, but I do think there's a danger that the increasing use of robots and technology will drive society to a tipping point where we start to destroy ourselves. Technology is forever advancing in the workplace with the intention of replacing human labour with cheaper automated processes. It started in factories and now there are even robots out there which replace care workers at patients' bedsides. As populations increase but the demand for human labour lessens it will lead to crumbling society, and it will be the evil robots to blame, if not necessarily in the fashion Hollywood has depicted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Would say that smartphones already are having a negative effect on society. Everyone updating each other that they're somewhere on facebook? I know I'm beside you ffs. Surely you blame the user and not the smartphone though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamaldo Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Surely you blame the user and not the smartphone though Smartphones have undeniably given people a greater platform to be a self-interested, attention seeking fud. I'm convinced smartphones are like heroin to certain (young) people now. If a parent took it off them they'd go mental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Charles Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I dropped my phone and broke it in October, and I still havne't got it fixed. Give it a bit of time, and you really don't miss it much at all. The alarm function is the only thing I'd say I needed. The rest is just a luxury to me really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I reckon there'll be big changes in education in the next 10 years and beyond. The traditional classroom will disappear, more teaching/learning will be done online, allowing a kind of one on one teaching, with fewer teachers teaching larger classes. It's already happening with things like Khan Academy, where lessons/tutorials/"worksheets" and marking all available from a single source (for a user licence of course) and there's more and more of these sites, this is the one I was first familiar with. Allows a school to pay a user licence, use the site to teach all classes, all it needs is a couple of teachers to monitor it, and the kids to have access to an ipad/tablet/laptop for each lesson, or class teach using an interactive whiteboard. Already there are jobs advertised here for "online teaching", work from home, chose how many students you want etc. I would forecast that, maybe apart from infants, schools as we know them will have gone in 30 years. think about it, the savings on infrastructure and maintainance costs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Charles Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Wait until you get a job/friends, you'll probably need one then. The only reason my work would have to phone me is to ask me to cover shifts, which I have absolutely no interest in doing. So no, I probably don't need one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Charles Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 No friends though That's a wee shame. Try join a jigsaw society or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeeperDee Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I reckon there'll be big changes in education in the next 10 years and beyond. The traditional classroom will disappear, more teaching/learning will be done online, allowing a kind of one on one teaching, with fewer teachers teaching larger classes. It's already happening with things like Khan Academy, where lessons/tutorials/"worksheets" and marking all available from a single source (for a user licence of course) and there's more and more of these sites, this is the one I was first familiar with. Allows a school to pay a user licence, use the site to teach all classes, all it needs is a couple of teachers to monitor it, and the kids to have access to an ipad/tablet/laptop for each lesson, or class teach using an interactive whiteboard. Already there are jobs advertised here for "online teaching", work from home, chose how many students you want etc. I would forecast that, maybe apart from infants, schools as we know them will have gone in 30 years. think about it, the savings on infrastructure and maintainance costs! My old school has now implemented a system whereby kids in primary seven upwards will be given homework and classwork on iPads and other tablets. Don't think it's a good idea personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Charles Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Me no try join. Seriously though, once you get some mates or a bird it would probably be a good idea to get a phone so you can keep in touch with them. k m8, I'll keep that in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Charles Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 No worries, keep those jeans dry x Cheers. #lifeadvice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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