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http://www.collegehumor.com/post/7042026/technology-then-vs-now
Dec 20, 2016 10:50 AM
SailorMoo
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http://www.collegehumor.com/post/7042026/technology-then-vs-now
sweetfeetpete
Gotta keep it sexy! Hips and nips!
xaraphina
We would have far better "cars" if producers were less clingy to "what works" and users were less, well, stupid.
FluxCoreX
TBH, car engines back in the day were very simple and easy to figure out. Now, completely opposite with so many electronics & regulations
eightythousandandeightyfive
Watching television? How old is this shit?
Gehennan
What are channels?
ArtOzz
#1 Um...mine costs £500...with insurence thats £60 excess...if I dropped £60 in a toilet Id be pissed, tho more about not having my phone
Metempiric
True but it doesn't cost millions and doesn't fill up a building.
BleepBlorpBop
Technological advancements am I right? AHAHA, yes, quite.
Peldie
As an automotive engineer, I fully support this message.
Starford97
As an autobody tech i can confirm
YES16MAN
+1 for providing sauce
Seanspeed
Oversimplifications can be funny. These are not. Like, this guy is using examples of things that actually aren't *that* different nowadays.
HydrochloricKitten
I couldn't even finish reading before I broke down crying...
AtomicSuperMe
well, cars didn't change at all
victorofboats
its like technology becomes cheaper, better, and more accessible over time
TheRaiderofRandom
Cars weren't impossible to maintain/repair before they introduced the onboard computer.
NationalistCanadianMooseWarrior
Yeah that kinda bugged me, they're the one thing on this list that went backwards.
mrsuzukiami
Live curling alone.
tortfeasor
Then: "I can easily get a loan for a house near where I work and afford to feed my 11ty children 'til they are adults."
tortfeasor
Now: "If I sell my blood and scrounge for scrap metal, I can afford to live in a closet within an hour of my job. Thank god I have no kids!"
Potatoque
Le wrong generation
orangatuan
76 Channels to Curling? Is that Canada? It's got to be Canada.
Moghul
All this is portrayed as if our ancestors wouldn't have behaved the same if they'd have had our technology. People don't change, tech does.
thundercactus
Availability of tech. It's just portraying that tech we take for granted used to be very rare and exclusive.
Moghul
I guess I just saw it differently. I can see your point of view. It just seems like the right column choose to only depict the more 1/
Moghul
decadent uses of tech. Sure, I look at cat pictures on my phone on the toilet, but I also use it to call my mother, keep track of my 2/
Moghul
schedule, exercise, and a number of other, infinitely more important things. 3/3 (right column chooses* in 1/3)
JaeLin
Wtf is going on at collegehumour?
JaeLin
*collegehumor
PileOfWalthers
"humor"
InnerUniverse
This is generally the problem with anything that becomes too accessible. I miss when technology was mostly utilized by people with 1/2
InnerUniverse
genuine interest. 2/2
HousePest
That's a little elitist in my opinion
InnerUniverse
I just think people who want something should learn how to use it instead of dumbing it down because the average consumer is lazy. 1/2
InnerUniverse
While it makes sense from a profit standpoint to distribute to a wider audience, it also encourages weaknesses that are easily overcome. 2/2
HousePest
I mean, complex doesn't always mean superior. I think its a testament to the advancement of technology when more than just specialists can
InnerUniverse
You make a good point, but considering Apple products are supposedly simplified for the basic user and I still have to show people how 1/2
ThomasFernandez
You can't fix a car? Shamr
thundercactus
I can fix some stuff on cars. I specialize in fixing industrial machinery though. Just a lack of familiarity, really.
ThomasFernandez
Then you can fix almost everything I guarantee, spend 200 bucks on a nice kobalt set and a few hours on YouTube and you can rebuild a motor
thundercactus
I only get garages to do shit I don't want to deal with, like transmission oil changes lol
kilnborn
To be honest, Curling is life.
Kate62
Found the Canadian
goflyblind
brothertaddeus
I would kill for 76 channels devoted to curling.
AgDrumma07
Not if I kill you first
ArtOzz
I had to reply with this. You know I had to right? - https://imgur.com/Rmy5gTP
CharDeeMacDenis
Everyone should enjoy throwing rocks at houses!
ImCanadianSorry
I must be Canadian, I immediately though it was the sport of curling.
MagikLight
So.. you make the present look idiotic and the past seem like everyone had their shit together. Your post sucks. Stop romanticizing the past
richfiles
Ha! Thinking the current generation has their shit together! Challenge their world view and they either go rabid or run off to a safe space
MagikLight
As opposed to before, when everyone was openly racist and homophobic. Yeah sucha better time to be alive, right?
thundercactus
In their defence, if you owned a phone in the late 19th century, you really had your shit together. Now, even people in poverty have phones.
MagikLight
Sure, but idiotic and erotic photography has been around since the moment they made cameras available to the population
LakrisalLover
I agree that this is stupid because it makes people look dumb without reason. It's very black/white and doesnt really say anything profound.
Ishalldefenestrateyou
I viewed it as an illustration on how technology became apart of everyday life. Stop assuming others interpretations.
MagikLight
Became a part of every day life.. while painting it in a negative light
Ishalldefenestrateyou
The more common a technology, the more mundane its uses, for the most part.
MagikLight
Except that's untrue. They could easily show someone networking, making new friends across the world. Curing disease.Making education videos
MagikLight
Except that's untrue. They could easily show someone networking, making new friends across the world. Curing disease.Making education videos
olds97lss
My phone is waterproof.
thezoolityre
Fuckadoodledoo
KonsolenLandwirt
But ew.
ojp1977
Would you still want it after that though?
NationalistCanadianMooseWarrior
What, you gonna drop $500+ on a new phone because you're too lazy to give it a rinse?
ojp1977
No, I do not and will never have a cell phone
GandalfsLawyer
Mine has been hit by the ceiling fan a bunch. Thank Asia for rhino glass
HEXADECIMAL
Wait, ceiling fan??
GandalfsLawyer
Yup, reaching up while holding my phone.
naivepuppy
Why tho?
StingLikeAJelly
Either you're really tall, or you're really high.
GandalfsLawyer
I'm 6'3", and my arms are 3' long. 8ft ceilings
Jodylegend
Might be waterproof but is it poop proof
olds97lss
Yeah... I thought at as soon as I submitted.
Jodylegend
:) mine is neither poop or water proof
UraniusCrack
I hope it's also pee proof, otherwise urine trouble
DefinetlyNotARussianSpy
I'm vegan
RockBell
Do you want me to give you a medal?
Intr0naut
I vape
Acronymicon
I crossfit
olds97lss
I'm vegan and I vape while doing crossfit and being racist.
stuffandthing
How dose this work? Oh I'll look it up on my phone. Bam now wins over them.
BurtMacklinYouSOB
Bam Magera?
HolyShitZoom
Except we start browsing memes and the car remains unfixed.
stuffandthing
I live in a cold country lol
ThatGrrlOverThere
To be fair, some of the earliest photographs were porn
CanadianJEh
Pics or it didn't happen.
aleister94
Hell Some the earliest cave paintings were porn
FknCasual
Pretty sure some of the earliest anything was porn.
ArdentSlacker
Selfies too.
PuellaSilentii
Not just photographs, but also there's also ye old porn on film as soon as the film camera got invented.
ArsonMurderandJaywalking
Lots of nudity so films could be "studies of motion" for drawing and such. Also, jiggly titties and dongers
yenua
But... The first Photo ever was a look out of a window :o
idiotn00b
dont judge me
ArtOzz
Thats the difference between the word "First" and "Earliest" bucko.
otakudan
Old Timey porn is hot. They had some real fine bitches back then.
blitherypoop
The weird shit started early too. There's a great photo of a woman lowering herself onto a large model of the Eiffel Tower.
IAmNotASkeleton
Thursdays, amirite?
Sn4f
How can you mention it without giving us a link?
blitherypoop
I saw it so long ago that I'm not sure if I could find it now.
ArtOzz
Porn is responsible for quite a lot of human history. That and war. Fighting and fucking. Thats humanity.
BurtMacklinYouSOB
Drinking. Eating. Shitting. Fucking. And fighting for more.
BionicToad
Sad really. I hear there is a higher life, but I have never seen it.
Swiftninja
Would you have it any other way?
ArtOzz
As a hyper rational personality type, yes.
ArtArchive
Is that an official classification or is just a fancy way of saying you're an arrogant asshole?
ArtOzz
HEARD IT ON BONES, but if the shoe fits. I think like her. And you think its arrogance. I think it makes me strange and not in the good way.
ojp1977
Beer - there's a documentary on how beer helped shape civilization, and how we progressed to get more beer
blitherypoop
"When man invented fire, he didn't say 'Hey, let's cook!' He said 'Great! Now we can see naked bottoms in the dark!'" - Steve (on Coupling)
IAmNotASkeleton
Nah, he said "I wish I could throw this on that dude over there."
AndreKroon
More like: "Now we can see our naked women in the dark, fight in the dark and then burn and pillage our enemies in the dark"
ArtOzz
Night time robbery; set your victims on fire so you can see what youre about. Good advice.
Sauroctonus
Now there's a rare thing. A quote from Coupling.
Forsooth167
Add "eating" into that and you basically have the entirety of the animal kingdom.
ArtOzz
Thats something either For or During respectively. Using your lover as a plate for example.
Attaroo
Note: scientists have also discovered the size of our brain is shrinking.
derwulf
Source?
BreadyStinellis
Yes, but the size of an animals brain doesn't equate to how intelligent it is.
RandomImgurian
...kinda doubt that, gonna need some source.
ThePastmaster
It's true but shrinking doesn't automatically mean we're getting more stupid, it could mean the brain is getting more efficient.
RandomImgurian
Yeah that's what I'd assume as well.
victorofboats
so have our computers, and they're certainly not getting any dumber.
Disgruntled3lf
And has been for the last 20,000 years... Also worth noting that a smaller brain does not mean less intelligent.
shiftingillusion
Not surprising. :/
FeralGh0ul
A smaller brain means less body energy usage.
ThePastmaster
It also doesn't mean we're getting more stupid. (That's just poor natural selection. ;P)
Attaroo
Sauce: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-have-our-brains-started-to-shrink/
Attaroo
Lots of articles about it. It may not have anything to do with loss of intelligence. They aren't sure.
ReitnesTenought
"But as long as we keep our brains fit...there should be no reason to fear for the collective intelligence of our species."
cerebralglitch
At least read the whole article:
cerebralglitch
"... anthropologists have ... proposed that larger brains may be less efficient at certain tasks ... because of longer connection pathways."
NickBlight
And they think Sex robots won't catch on. WE'VE GOT MAYBE 2 GENERATIONS LEFT BEFORE A DELIGHTFUL EXTINCTION WOOOOO!
aPokal
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/12/19/rise-sex-robots-will-make-people-appreciate-real-thing/ Most effective way to get us extinct.
SenatorHillaryIAmStillInTheRaceClinton
Virtual realty would be a much cheaper way to go
WhoIsBob
http://www.vrcircle.com/Images/VRNews/20150720-toy-story-virtual-realty.jpg
ArtOzz
This is how the world ends. Not with a bang but with a UUUH-UH-UH-UH-AHHHhhh...
HaikuCarChase
Ah, there's nothing like a delightful extinction. The dodo birds, for instance, were absolutely delicious.
YeahFairiesWearBootsNala2011
I wanna die by antimatter collision
Jupman
No survives an annihilation pair.
idontevenknowsillymonkey
Illusions VR and things like it are already a big hit..not sure who thinks sex robots won't catch on.
CatBlaster5000
This shit made me blow hard out my nose
Thanksforallofthememeries
9IX9
Don't see why that would be a problem. Far too many humans.
SafetyAdvocate
https://youtu.be/OhQhZ4rcJdU
KrisPiasek
I see you are specialist in it, so just die.
Roboholic
Then: blow up dolls. Now: sexbot2000
ImChrisHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaansen
Coming to your toooooooooown!
AuntSharron
Dat anthropocene extinction doh
StringVariable
Can you imagine secret services waging war by giving their opponents more advanced sex-bot technology?
01110100011100100110111101101100011011110110110001101111
How did he get heeereee? What does he waaaaant?
MadJackMcJack
superanth
Dolores?
ohwowthathappened
Bruh, we're already trying to figure out how to reverse aging, and we're gettin close. Immortal
Thestalemonkey
https://secure.realdoll.com/female-realdoll2-custom-build/
AMisterShoe
I don't think humanity will go extinct. I think its going to go Mad Max for awhile but eventually everything will rebuild and fall again.
swaziwarrior
The holodeck will be the last thing humans invent and one day aliens will uncover room after room full of satisfied mummies.
InsanityCrab
http://imgur.com/DinJPMm
Beeoneack
https://youtu.be/uzO2mi4uHAs
SailorMoo
/a/p1Qz6
Thestalemonkey
https://secure.realdoll.com/female-realdoll2-custom-build/
xheroth
NickBlight
Bah! Where's the death-ray or the pleasure plunger? If you think I'm getting off with such a basic model you know me pretty well
naruku
It says free but on his chest it says 20.
SheWhoRunsWithRaptors
HylianFox
My parts are showing!?
ArtOzz
This is how the world ends. Not with a bang but with a UUUH-UH-UH-UH-AHHHhhh...
ASentientPotato
Not with a bang but with the Tim Allen 'Home Improvement' noise.
WhoIsBob
Well, kinda with bang
ArtOzz
Banging in the plural I suppose yes.
DrowsyDude
but also a whimper.
ArtOzz
For the SnM community, yes.