Devices everywhere

[jnicho02]

I have heard that we will have 'devices everywhere', that my washing machine will have a level of intelligence.... Or will my washing machine stay like it is - a large metal box weighted down by a concrete block with a rotating drum that fills with water and rotates.<br>
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Somebody please tell me why I would want an intelligent washing machine (and I'll buy one!).

 

[Alt255]

My original post only used processor speed as an example of &quot;evolution of devices&quot;. The subsequent posts spent more space refering to my small comment than I would ever consider appropriate.<br>
That wasn't my point.<br>
Sure, technology has made considerable advances in the last five years and will continue into the future. But, are we happier now than we were five years ago? Overall, I doubt it. Our survival priorities have simply shift a little more from &quot;Is HE a threat to me and what can I do about it?&quot; to &quot;Is IT a threat to me and what can I do about it?&quot;<br>
Thanks, Calahans, for the recognition of our personal identities and the role of technology. Technology offers a choice. Essentially, it offers a choice between competing technologies.<br>
My personal identity? I have spent weeks in the woods without supplies, a tent or a computer. I was happier then than I am now.<br>
I'm not some sort of survivalist pushing for a return to nature. I only wish that my colleages would stop depending on the current or future technologies and start relying on their own abilities and instincts.<br>
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WE are the ultimate answer.<br>

 

[cargo2000]

It sounds to me like most of the people here who have posted not liking thecnological advancement have fallen victems to the faults of a bad programming. the only thing a computer knows is what it is told to do, and you can tell it to do ANYTHING. If you don't like somthing because of it's poor quality DON'T USE IT, this is a consumers market and beleive it or not we are all consumers and we decide what goes where. <br>
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It also sounds that several people don't like windows or microsoft (was it three or four complaints? about 25%). Like i said if you don't like it don't buy it you don't need windows to run your computer. get linx or BeOS they can both be gotten for free.

 

[JimHorton]

cargo,<br>
Me, I'm not referring to bad programming, I'm referring to bad concepts. And my purpose in voicing this is in part to put in my 2 cents and mabye an entrepreneur will catch wind and put his money and efforts into something that will be more likely to help the world, ie. my earlier post about 'rounded windows'--Some developer's spent time and money and brainpower creating some scheme to--not just create a custom rounded window for a custom project--but to have the standard MS Window object create a window with rounded corners in every thing you do. Yawn-friggin'-yawn. To each his own, and people are free to spend time as they want, but if they were doing that with the thought that it would 'make money' or 'help people', they could have saved themselves alot of effort. Same with a washing machine that can be controlled from the internet. I can set a timer on mine to have it run when I leave in the morning, and I don't want my washing machine open to hackers who would hack it to wash my colors in hot water! ;-) I am the market (or 1 4,000,000,000th of it), and market researchers need to know this stuff.<br>
--Jim

 

[Karl Blessing]

hehe, it seems that technology was created to make humans spend less time in say the kitchen, but in fact the more technology we get the more actual time we spend with it, even tho it would have been said to save us time.<br>
(pointless comment, hrm, maybe not)<br>
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[calahans]

&quot;but in fact the more technology we get the more actual time we spend with it, even tho it would have been said to save us time.&quot;<br>
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I'm not sure about that, yes if your in the IT industry, no if your a builder, car manufacturer, miner, factory worker......<br>