Technology at it's worst
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The human race will decay further into human vegetables with the release of this new glasses that turn fiction into real experiences. We’ve all seen these glasses in films where a simulated scenario is played before the users eyes and makes you feel like your actually there. They cost $3000 now but it won’t be long before they will be made affordable for everyone and the technology improves giving the user even more realism to the point to where they cannot differentiate fact from reality.
Soon enough you will have human vegetables lying in their beds, couches, floors wherever motionless living a false reality hours upon hours a day blood sucking the system dry and whatever neurons they have left in their brainless minds. Is this the future we want for our kids, like it or not it’s here and it’s only going to get worse.
I’m all for technological advancements but advancements that will benefit mankind not enslave it and vegetablise it. In 50 years time I will be one of the few old relics/dinosaurs left with all my faculties intact creating things with my hands as it was done for thousands of years and what may be the very last things created by man.
Only time will tell the effects of new technologies on humankind. There will of course be those who get vegetablized (first time I’ve ever seen that as a verb), but there will be people who want more from life, who need to be doing something, creating something. Thank goodness for people like that.
I couldn’t think of a better word to describe the degeneration of this generation other than vegetablised. Maybe that word will end up in the Oxford Dictionary.
They’ll make virtual woodworking and millions will call themselves woodworkers as they lay on the couch. Paul will say its not real woodworking and they’ll get mad.
Well, they call CNC routing woodworking. I find that almost as much of a stretch.
Derek you hit the nail on the head
I got sick of all the TOOLS and every month there was a new one you Must have I lost will after a life time of woodworking
One day I pulled out my hand tools and could not remember the last time I really used them or how to.
That’s why I joined Paul’s class. Most of that junk is gone and I enjoy being in the shop again. To me the top junk tool is the biscuit jointer what a waste.Frankj
Funny thing happened yesterday. I needed to rip a board for a shelf, nothing fancy. I started setting up to use my circular saw. I always go through much pain setting up, getting the clamps and guide just right and such.
Then I stopped myself. I pulled out my disston rip saw (cost me $5.00) and cut the board. Took me a while, but I did it. Then planed to my lines. My execise for the day… Had to go change my t-shirt after the workout. But it felt good…
I think I experienced a mental perspective change, an “I CAN DO” moment.
Beats virtual any day…There is one point that should be borne in mind in relation to modern technologies.
The industrial revolution brought about the mass production of hand tools which most of us use in woodworking.
The natural progression of this revolution and advance in technologies led to the near extinction of hand work.
While manufacturers of old had some pride in what they produced their principle motivation was to make money.
This is the same with manufacturers today.The pursuit of Money.
My point is you cant use these technologies on whatever level and then decry their evolution.
It’s a double edged sword. I don’t believe that future generations will be any more or less interested in hand work in whatever field than those who have gone before.
The reality is advancement in technology in the developed world has taken the hard hum drum graft out of woodworking in particular which crippled men and sent them to an early grave as they had no choice but to do it for ten and twelve hours a day everyday.
It’s too easy to romanticize the old ways when you engage in them merely as a hobby.$3000?! You can buy the VR headset for a PlayStation for $500
Not a fan of it usually but I can see it having some uses. Most all things are fine in moderation.
you should read ‘the shallows’ by nicholas carr, very sobering book about technology and in particular the internet, lots of interesting research about how it is destroying our mind.
rodrat has it right. Millions of people will have their lives enriched because of virtual reality-related technologies. And some few will abuse it and become “vegetableized” (did I spell it right?)
Television was no different. The internet was no different. Any advancement will benefit most, and be abused by some few. I don’t see it as anything new, different, unusual, or particularly concerning.
[quote quote=129468] In 50 years time I will be one of the few old relics/dinosaurs left with all my faculties intact creating things with my hands as it was done for thousands of years and what may be the very last things created by man.
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At the speed I work I should just be putting the finishing touches to my tool cabinet then.
[quote quote=129468]I’m all for technological advancements but advancements that will benefit mankind not enslave it and vegetablise it.[/quote]
Those same glasses are what doctors will be using to perform operations that the MkI eyeball and hand could never accomplish, in order to keep you fitter, healthier, living longer… and woodworking longer!!
I can see where this technology would be very useful in the medical field, Military and Law enforcement. Any application where cost, situation or human life might be at stake. It’s really no different from a pilot using a flight simulator. Now that I think about it I used to down my son for playing video games so much. Now he is a software engineer. What you have to keep in mind is that not everyone likes hand working.
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