Technology Today Is Disappointing.

[ngmastah]

I was reading up on the 1950s and 60s and saw that a lot of the technologies they predicted we'd have by now don't exist. Back then, people predicted that we'd have far more conventional and convenient space travel, safer nuclear power (as well as nuclear fusion), as well as a much more diverse and vast amount of medical technologies that can save lives, reduce aging, and eliminate disease. But we don't. Instead, society has gone the other way and focused on the complete opposite of this, we constantly create new technologies that have absolutely no use in terms of helping society advance, and ultimately in achieving post human status. Instead, humanity has focused on making media, (ex movies, video games, music, etc..) more and more advanced, so that we may live out our wildest fantasies in fiction. I highly doubt that humanity will be able to slow down aging, traverse space conveniently, and find convenient sources of energy in the future. The way I see it, by the year 3000 (If we're all not dead yet) we won't have faster-than-light space travel, we'll have faster- than-light internet connections, we won't have nano-technology making us stronger, more resilient, and faster, but we will have nano-technology that will allow us to surf the web, and play video games, as well as watch movies. I don't know about you guys, but this is really disappointing to me, it seems that humanity will never truly become as great as it wants to be and fulfill it's true potential, as all we're really doing is using all of our resources and best minds to think up ways to make an iPhone smaller, or how to make CGI look better.

[Phantox]

2012
Making walls of texts

I seriously hope you guys don't do this

[killerjeff]

I'm kinda glad they don't have that Jetsons crap. we don't have the tech now is because we are cooking up better ones than the 50s or the 60s can predict.

[ngmastah]

At 1/5/12 02:40 AM, Phantox wrote:

2012
Making walls of texts

I seriously hope you guys don't do this

Shit, I forgot I'm on Newgrounds. I guess no one here is capable of comprehending anything over 4 sentences long.

[ngmastah]

At 1/5/12 02:43 AM, killerjeff wrote: I'm kinda glad they don't have that Jetsons crap. we don't have the tech now is because we are cooking up better ones than the 50s or the 60s can predict.

Well, we have better TV's and computers, but I don't think our other technologies can really match those portrayed in The Jetsons. I mean, sentient AI, flying cars? I doubt we're cooking up anything better than that. But whatever, we have iPods, so fuck them.

[Phantox]

At 1/5/12 02:43 AM, ngmastah wrote:
Shit, I forgot I'm on Newgrounds. I guess no one here is capable of comprehending anything over 4 sentences long.

I think you just forgot that after every 3rd or 4th sentence you're supposed to start a new paragraph

[ngmastah]

At 1/5/12 02:44 AM, Phantox wrote:

At 1/5/12 02:43 AM, ngmastah wrote:
Shit, I forgot I'm on Newgrounds. I guess no one here is capable of comprehending anything over 4 sentences long.

I think you just forgot that after every 3rd or 4th sentence you're supposed to start a new paragraph

A new paragraph is supposed to be formed when a new idea comes up, not after 3 or 4 sentences. I consistently followed the same idea, so there was no need for me to separate them into paragraphs, if you listened to your LA teacher in Grade 8 then you would know this.

[killerjeff]

At 1/5/12 02:44 AM, ngmastah wrote:

At 1/5/12 02:43 AM, killerjeff wrote: I'm kinda glad they don't have that Jetsons crap. we don't have the tech now is because we are cooking up better ones than the 50s or the 60s can predict.

Well, we have better TV's and computers, but I don't think our other technologies can really match those portrayed in The Jetsons. I mean, sentient AI, flying cars? I doubt we're cooking up anything better than that. But whatever, we have iPods, so fuck them.

Give it a few more years we might have something like that, except more modern looking besides the retro look or feel. Lets hope our future resembles something like aperture science.

[II2none]

At 1/5/12 02:44 AM, Phantox wrote:

At 1/5/12 02:43 AM, ngmastah wrote:
Shit, I forgot I'm on Newgrounds. I guess no one here is capable of comprehending anything over 4 sentences long.

I think you just forgot that after every 3rd or 4th sentence you're supposed to start a new paragraph

actually it's 4-5 setences.

AT OP:
I see what you mean but it's human nature for leisure to come before productivity even in those times. Especially in these times being more modern than we ever were 50-60 years ago. Also It takes ALOT of money to make these revolutionary creations.

[Light]

At 1/5/12 02:39 AM, ngmastah wrote: I was reading up on the 1950s and 60s and saw that a lot of the technologies they predicted we'd have by now don't exist. Back then, people predicted that we'd have far more conventional and convenient space travel,

We do, actually. We just happened to fail to meet the unrealistically high expectations set by the people back then.

safer nuclear power (as well as nuclear fusion),

We do have safer nuclear power, believe it or not. Yes, huge accidents do happen, but they're actually quite rare. I know nothing about nuclear fusion, so I can't respond to that part of your post.

as well as a much more diverse and vast amount of medical technologies that can save lives, reduce aging, and eliminate disease.

The MRI machine and the CT scanner were invented in the 70s, both of which are extremely important in medicine. I honestly could go on and on about how much medicine has improved over the past 5~6 decades, but I don't think that will be necessary. The point is that you're wrong for stating that medicine is no better today than in the 1950s and 60s. OK, I'll go on. Just because...

You say that medicine hasn't really improved much and hasn't met the expectations(To at least a small extent, anyway) of the people in the 50s and 60s? Polio, a once prevalent and frightening disease, has been virtually eliminated(Although it seems to still exist in India and Pakistan). The Hepatitis B vaccine was licensed in 1981. The Hepatitis A vaccine was created in the 90s. Thanks to the improvement of medicine since the early 80s, HIV is no longer a death sentence. Cancer, although it is still deadly to this day, can be treated and cured much more easily and quickly than in the 50s and 60s.

You mentioned that we haven't developed any methods to slow down aging. Not true at all. Look at older celebrities. They don't look as old as they normally would, and I'm sure you know why.

Yeah, medicine has improved. There's no doubt about it.

But we don't. Instead, society has gone the other way and focused on the complete opposite of this, we constantly create new technologies that have absolutely no use in terms of helping society advance, and ultimately in achieving post human status. Instead, humanity has focused on making media, (ex movies, video games, music, etc..)

I've already proven you wrong, so I have nothing to say here.

more and more advanced, so that we may live out our wildest fantasies in fiction. I highly doubt that humanity will be able to slow down aging, traverse space conveniently, and find convenient sources of energy in the future. The way I see it, by the year 3000 (If we're all not dead yet) we won't have faster-than-light space travel, we'll have faster- than-light internet connections, we won't have nano-technology making us stronger, more resilient, and faster, but we will have nano-technology that will allow us to surf the web, and play video games, as well as watch movies. I don't know about you guys, but this is really disappointing to me, it seems that humanity will never truly become as great as it wants to be and fulfill it's true potential, as all we're really doing is using all of our resources and best minds to think up ways to make an iPhone smaller, or how to make CGI look better.

You clearly don't know much about scientific efforts to create and improve nanotechnology as well as finding a way to go faster than the speed of light.

If you want to know how much we've advanced since the 1950s and 60s, I suggest you take look at this.

We've definitely advanced in ways that people of the mid 20th century couldn't dream of.

[Jercurpac]

Pick up a copy of Popular Mechanics or Scientific American some time, they're probably releasing their yearly overview of scientific advances. There are all kinds of awesome research being done, it just that new technology reaches overall society at large so slowly that we don't realize that a major change has occured. We just always seem to be in the blah present. Look at the internet, it crept into our lives at such a snail's that at some point someone had to step back look at everything and say "Holy crap, humanity has fundamentally changed forever because of this." The same happening with hundreds of technologies as we speak.

Just because we're not taking casual trip across across the galaxy doesn't mean we're not advancing.

[Phantox]

At 1/5/12 02:47 AM, ngmastah wrote:
A new paragraph is supposed to be formed when a new idea comes up, not after 3 or 4 sentences. I consistently followed the same idea, so there was no need for me to separate them into paragraphs, if you listened to your LA teacher in Grade 8 then you would know this.

If you can't get your idea out in 3 to 4 sentences then you are rambling or don't know how to express your ideas into writing

[DoctorStrongbad]

At 1/5/12 02:43 AM, killerjeff wrote: I'm kinda glad they don't have that Jetsons crap. we don't have the tech now is because we are cooking up better ones than the 50s or the 60s can predict.

It would be cool to have flying cars and Robot maids. :)

[SpamOfCan]

Screw that. I'm happy with the technology we have now days.

[Darthleather]

Soon technology will become so advanced that we all start to look like the people from Wall-E.

[CyanSandwich]

I'd rather have fun shit like cool computers and awesome movies than more convenient space travel.
It's not like we could've been up to the point where anyone can go to space if they want.

Also I don't care where technology is headed for the future of humanity because I'll be dead soon anyway, long before the year 3000.

[ngman7]

The tech they have now is much more advanced then was was around in the late 20th Century. It still leaves a lot to be desired.

[killerjeff]

At 1/5/12 03:17 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:

At 1/5/12 02:43 AM, killerjeff wrote: I'm kinda glad they don't have that Jetsons crap. we don't have the tech now is because we are cooking up better ones than the 50s or the 60s can predict.

It would be cool to have flying cars and Robot maids. :)

Think of it like this... Robot maids or android maids ;D>

[ngman7]

At 1/5/12 04:31 AM, killerjeff wrote:
Think of it like this... Robot maids or android maids ;D>

They are working on prototypes for flying cars- I have seen it on G4Tv.

[Bit]

At 1/5/12 02:39 AM, ngmastah wrote: I was reading up on the 1950s and 60s and saw that a lot of the technologies they predicted we'd have by now don't exist. Back then, people predicted that we'd have far more conventional and convenient space travel, safer nuclear power (as well as nuclear fusion), as well as a much more diverse and vast amount of medical technologies that can save lives, reduce aging, and eliminate disease. But we don't.

Surely you know that the future speculation touted as fact in which the world has personal space shuttles and robots that do everything is a future predicted by by cartoonists and science fiction writers.

Not to insult either of these parties, but the vast majority of them know nothing of what goes into these new technologies and are much more interested in writing a good story which will amaze and captivate the viewers.

Instead, society has gone the other way and focused on the complete opposite of this, we constantly create new technologies that have absolutely no use in terms of helping society advance, and ultimately in achieving post human status. Instead, humanity has focused on making media, (ex movies, video games, music, etc..) more and more advanced, so that we may live out our wildest fantasies in fiction.

Do you know why? Those movies and video games are what people really care about.

It's easy to get funding for things like that which are made by companies which bring in funding. It's an entirely different matter to get funding for new, untested technologies and there are much fewer scientists who are able to do such advanced research.

I highly doubt that humanity will be able to slow down aging, traverse space conveniently, and find convenient sources of energy in the future.

These are not simple problems. You're ignoring the fact that people are living longer in the first world than they did 62 years ago, space travel is now actually possible, and we have nuclear energy and are perfecting new methods of energy generation every day.

The way I see it, by the year 3000 (If we're all not dead yet) we won't have faster-than-light space travel, we'll have faster- than-light internet connections,

Faster than light travel, according to Einstein and most other physicists, is not possible. So "traveling faster than light" would require strange, space-time-modifying technologies which aren't nearly as simple as making Internet connections faster. Internet connections are limited by the speed of light as well, as information cannot travel faster than the speed of light.

we won't have nano-technology making us stronger, more resilient, and faster, but we will have nano-technology that will allow us to surf the web, and play video games, as well as watch movies.

Nano technology designed to help people is actually being researched. I don't know where you got your information about using it to play video games.

I don't know about you guys, but this is really disappointing to me, it seems that humanity will never truly become as great as it wants to be and fulfill it's true potential, as all we're really doing is using all of our resources and best minds to think up ways to make an iPhone smaller, or how to make CGI look better.

You've vastly oversimplified the situation.

Important scientific pursuits definitely should get more funding, but the advancements being made are happening right now whether you choose to ignore them or not. If you're expecting predictions of a world where robots serve humans seriously, coming from a time period when robotics was nothing and computation was in its infancy, you're missing the big picture.

[SubparTony]

I don't think technology is disappointing.Also you don't know or you'll never know if things that have been predicted now are going to happen in the future.It's dissapointing that people prefer finding disadvantages for anything to making something to improve it.

[Familyguy666]

This sums it up.

[Strobe9]

At 1/5/12 01:07 PM, Familyguy666 wrote: This sums it up.

FUCK YEA.