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wizardgynoid
so many of these are just plain wrong.
Kamica
Uuhm... Asking where someone is can also be done when you are supposed to be meeting someone somewhere, when someone is hiding etc...
YouAreKillingMeSmalls
when someone is calling you from a payphone...
capnbellamy
If an AI purposefully fails the Turing Test then presumably it'd be turned off and reprogrammed. It isn't in the AI's interest to fail.
Trion13
For any one asking how we would know this, almost all in development programs generate logs. The first AI's won't be any different.
KrinonValian
Wow... just, so many of these are wrong...
moxymox
A lot of these are really wrong, and other are really dumb.
Bitcerto
Totally agree. Or really obvious and shallow.
Abbo
#20 I wear a mickey mouse wrist watch. come at me bro
thecolonels
OK there, Professor Langdon.
jmoneyawyeah
*gems from Buzzfeed
IspellBananasbysingingGwenStefani
Most of these have been on Reddit/r/showerthoughts for a long time. Buzzfeed probably compiled them.
SomeDetroitGuy
#4- no, you're still just addicted to the nicotine and smoking regular cigarettes will give you your fix just as well.
Volirus
Yeah, it would have been correct if it said figuratively. Dont know why you got downvoted because you understand the meaning of words :S
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musikhasse
You have no idea what youre talking about
SomebodyStoleMyCarRadio
You are correct, but every step towards quitting smoking is a good one! A lot of people use them to help with the withdrawals when quitting
Flollop
We actually still have horses.
StormageddonDarkLordOfAllAKAAlfie
and we will deep into the space age too
SomebodyStoleMyCarRadio
I love your username and also sick reference bro!
huet
hahaha i got a good laugh out of this! you are correct
GiantRobotsRule
Checkmate, Atheists.
raspyberry
The internet is already full of pictures of dead cats. It's been around longer than 15 years.
jiffener
it's true :'(
MrPeters
Several of these are wrong... Two are: Battery life time varies greatly. BRB is still used because it's not just SMS language.
TheStickyWicket
I got a used iPod when I got pregnant & I have to charge it 6x per day... But I'm so tired, I also sleep 6x per day sooo... what?
Keegsterking
I still say brb..
ryan50ryan
#13 Yes, Netflix has an auto-play feature so you can marathon a series. But it also has a confirmation "keep watching?" feature if (1/2)
ryan50ryan
(2/2) go too long without pressing any buttons.
fictitiousspoon
Who stopped using brb?
BorisDisco
Right! I probably use it more because not only do I type it, but I SAY it to people on the phone or in person when I have to step away.
beugler
some of these are just stupid and completely untrue
PhiIIipJFry
#1 calling bullshit I've seen seinfeld
PleaseDontRespondToMySarcasticCommentsWithASeriousReply
tarataqa
Me too. And don't forget to leave your home address. After they get horny from watching porn, they come over to finish it off.
max22imus
The "Where are you?" one is bullshit
SamWiseGambit
I still use BRB not sure what that pictures talking about.
Snarkoleptic
I can't begin to describe how much this irks me
. I end up having to resort to -very- silly workarounds
tarataqa
I *see* what you did there. I SEE IT!
Snarkoleptic
Thank you haha. I tend to use the asterisk for actions *runs around* or for cprrections
tarataqa
I use asterisks for everything. I'm a real wild card. :-\
Snarkoleptic
*corrections
Soilborn27
That last one, that last one torpedoed my feels.
FrigginCornflakes
Museums have plenty of dinosaurs, and being dead doesn't prevent them from being awesome.
SaFalken
All the animals in 101 Dalmatians the live action version are dead.
QuantumSupersexposition
This only mildly registers on my grammar nazi radar: should it be "full of pictures of cats that (have since) died?" Or am I just a pedant?
EroticZombiePants
It's worse when you realize that some of the humans you've seen in picture form are now dead.
TheWhiteCollarBrawlerMann
A cock punch right in the feels
ButterfaceTaintClown
The Internet is full of cats. NEWSFLASH! SO ARE THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT!! The Egyptians worshipped cats because (1
ButterfaceTaintClown
they thought they were funny. The pyramids are simply the tips of the ears of giant underground cat monuments (2
iDrinkDrano
Heres a worse one: Some of those cats will have longer lasting fame and legacy that you.
iDrinkDrano
than* FUCK
tarataqa
Whenever I watch a movie from the 1950s, almost every actor in it is dead. I just enjoy their memory.
GaiusOrpheus
When I see a picture of a hot chick I think, one, there's a slim chance she's having sex right now, and two, she might be dead... or both...
Rhase
Usually both.
tregavin
But she totally has a big turd going through her body right now
imentirelyrelevant
Schroedinger's boobs.
Fatitude
Or both...god, what a time to be alive. Or in their case dead. Wait...ewww.
revcleo
well maybe if you're browsing 4chan
Fatitude
I did that once. I regret every second of it.
revcleo
It used to be better, back in 2006. Though /b/ has always been eh.
iliketopostrandomgifs
candycoatedraindrops
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO, Colonel Meow. Why did you have to remind me?!?!?
HaniiPuppy
TWAS I THAT BURNED THE HOUSE!
Mogarthenamecopier
Sick reference brah
papapanda
My God... Computers are breeding humans...
Lionskull
no, algorithms that people wrote are breeding humans.
srsbizness
That needs to be a "Persons of interest" episode. In fact, didn't The Machine help match Finch with his wife?
G0MeatCube
Mine r usually unborn dumpster babies thanks to computers.
kmarshall10
You would think they'd be smarter
GuyWhoMightSayQue
baby we don't need a computer to breed <3 <3 <3
AsAWhiteWoman
What if the computer just watched? ;D
Forky7
Humans made the computer and wrote the algorithms. So humans are breeding humans
NotAnAdmin
Most matchmaking algorithms (Amazon, Netflix, eHarmony, etc.) are a result of machine learning. Computers figured out how to breed humans.
procrasturbation
Darker days ahead for the pimps.
Whydopeoplekeepcallingmethat
He's onto us. Deploy the nerve gas.
TheLordLucifersBannedAccount02
Naah, because people still have to say "yes"... fucking computers.
VulpesIncendium
Humans just invented a new way to meet other humans. It's not nearly as weird when thought of that way.
data2dyne
IT HAS ALREADY BEGUN...and we missed it
ComeFromBehind
I know, and the AI purposely failing the Turing test. Fuck that.
zackofspades
I shivered at that. We're not far from it.
TheWayADrillWorks
I don't know about that, they're nowhere near that kind of forward thinking capacity. Might happen eventually though.
Blood2Bleed
That was very trippy for me 2 o.o
Rabbyk
There is no 2. Only 1 and 0.
Kronoak
jokes on you, i still have a pocket watch
tarataqa
jokes on you, I still have a light-powered wristwatch. IT NEVER DIES.
jrau18
I used to have a pocket watch. I used to swing it around on the chain because I was like 14. The chain snapped and hit my friend right in th
StarrryNight
in th? IN THE WHAT?? HIT THEM IN THE WHAT?1?"!??21?321?321?321?13?
tarataqa
e chocolate starfish and the hotdog-flavored water!
MyPalmsSpaghettiKneesWeakArmsSpaghettiTheresVomitOnMySpaghetti
RIP, OP <345
mountainofpuppies
i feel seriously disorientated without my wristwatch.. thats powered by a spring not battery.. i'm 23 and a definite technophile...
OnlySuperstition
I have a wrist watch (battery) and I can't imagine going without it
tarataqa
http://cdn1.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/02/08-Gear-2-orange-2.jpg
OSCgal
I read time better from an analog clock face, so my (quartz movement) watch isn't coming off anytime soon.
StarrryNight
Sounds like the word you're hunting for there is hipster, son.
mountainofpuppies
nope, i love mainstream stuff, just had a watch since i was young, feel like i can't properly quantise the day w/o one
TheUglyGuy
I am touching my phone in the hope that a pizza will appear.
Satinsball
Ya you dirty phone, you know what I want. Damnt now it brought up pornhub...oh well
CoeusDarksoul
You have to turn it on first you pancake.
Efreeti
That one is a lie in my case. There is no way I can order a pizza without speaking.
SpliffSanders
I'd prefer a pizza ass! YaknowwhatImsayin...
JangoDarkSaber
I am touching my keyboard in hope that upvotes will appear.
newTARwhoDIS
He doesn't like to be touched there
Digerdos
iliketopostrandomgifs
TheBatmanFan
THIS IS GLORIOUS!
mithiwithi
Does Domino's count as pizza for purposes of this discussion?
CreamGravy
If you touch the delivery guy in just the right places, itll be free ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Sfinski
Same here, but instead of my phone I'm touching my....
healthyasfuck
Make sure to clap when it appears.
ScorelessPine
Dangit, you got it first.
AngryRainbowUnicornDicks
If you touch me the right way, I can make a pizza appear for you.
ScorelessPine
Make sure to clap when it gets there.
MisterWho
You're probably using the same methods you use to touch yourself at night.
WarPatron
Don't forget to clap
ThatStickyFeelingJustBeforeYouStartSweating
The dream is real! http://welcome.pushforpizza.com/
OracleForCheap
When watching American movies, I always thought that pizza delivery was a myth and that it didn't really happen. *shrugs*
PhoenixQueenAzula
In my area, jimmy johns(subway but worse) is far more popular a delivery option. And much faster.
OracleForCheap
I have never heard of them, but I have heard of Subway! :D
FrancisLouJean
Haha where are you from?
OracleForCheap
Sweden!
FrancisLouJean
Do they have fast food in Sweden?
SargnargThaHardgeHag
Did it work?
ElPoloDiablo
He better fucking deliver... The delivery guy, that is.
Starvegal
No, but Siri is filing a sexual harassment lawsuit. :/
Matyeuxdeloup
Si c'est le bon numéro probablement
g3r4r
Et soudainement... Du français.
callmesarg
Yayy, words I don't know. +1
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CatsandUnicorns
Pretty close actually, it translates to: If it's the right number, probably (as in, it would probably work not probably the right number)
StarrryNight
Again, we got rid of the horse, BECAUSE IT KEPT SHITTING EVERYWHERE. If you don't think cars are an improvement, LIVE IN HORSE SHIT
TheFeralDog
Also cars require a lot less maintenance they also can tow boats and hoes
HousePIant
Also, if you fall asleep on a horse you'll probably fall off.
AdrianDiaz
And yet we find it normal to inhale crap daily while its disgusting to wall around horse poop
Imthedroidyouwerelookingfor
Technically cars shit in our air
SomebodyStoleMyCarRadio
We should bring back the horse. Less air pollution, and it'll create shit-picker-uper jobs for the unemployed. Win win, right?
StarrryNight
Would you rather pick up shit or work in a petrol station?
SomebodyStoleMyCarRadio
It was a joke.....
peebottle
Well pay phones existed so "where are you" has probably been said for a while now...
AIComments
And just because someone gave you their phone number doesn't mean you know where they live.
grimol
It should say the person making the call always knew where the other one was. Not the receive of the call, pay phone or not.
exurbcowboy
Also people often called from phones at work as well as the homes of friends and family
blitherypoop
You could also be calling from someone else's house. Many parents asked that, long before cellphones.
FinallyRElephant
And you could be in a house and yell "where are you" to someone else in the house.
MantisTobagganMD
Also....correspondence letters, say, for for the army.
Rahrhino
The dark has been around for a while, too
Folamh3
Every time someone posts that picture I have this exact thought.
GhettoWerewolf
Receiving a call in general before caller I.D. was invented rules this out.
drunkbs
"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"
FoxyEllie
In fact, you yell to someone from behind a tree in the year 1000. The someone says "where are you?". It's used more, sure, but it's not new.
FarceMajeure
Calling from a relative/friend's house or a store was also a thing. "1997 Guy, where are you?" "Bitch, I could be lots of places"
klucky
Existed? What they aren't a thing now?
tarataqa
In the 80s we had cordless phones. We'd play hide-n-seek while talking shit.
88mixy
Also, the rhetorical question, "Where are you?"
SuperbBackhand
And how would you ask someone where they are if they're hiding? Hide and seek has been around for quite a while
ChimeraOfFury
Or when my SO comes home and I'm not immediately in sight, he shouts "Where are you?"
jmoneyawyeah
Also, "Scooby Doo Where Are You!" probably didn't break new ground with the expression
qawda2wd12e
Also, maybe if it was dark out and you wanted to know where someone was
ImOnlyMakingThisToPostAGif
This! I always think this whenever i read that image.
drunkbs
"And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?" -Genesis 3:9
solosysygy
This is the best example.
smallfrie32
Thank you! I've been trying to say this everytime this pops up
PaleJr
To call someone from a payphone, you still needed prior knowledge of their location.
RebBearShark
What about when you walk into a friend's house and ask someone where he/she is?
SomeDetroitGuy
To receive a call from a pay phone, you do not.
PaleJr
Agreed, but the intent of the quote above would seem to be a proactive inquiry, as in you contacted them specifically to ask their locale(1)
SabreBane
I'm crying
pothocboots
Awww, don't cry, have an anarchist rabbit instead!
baronridiculous
Also calling someone in a big house with several phones.
TrapsAreIllegal
Dude, asking where are you is so old, that shit is in the bible (literally).
yestotoast
But how would they get in touch with them? If they call at home they areprobably at home.
peebottle
someone calls you at your house they know where you are but "where are you" is what you could ask to them.
ChangDarkElf
Except you're calling a land line. So you would already know exactly where someone was.
blitherypoop
The caller could be asked where they are.
dower85
It would be better to say "Calling someone to ask "Where are you?" is a recent thing" You never used to be able to do that.
somethingwittythedoctorsays
You still had to address letters so really it's been since walkie-talkie/radio. maybe 100 years. Still recent in the long view of history.
Drbubbles47
Huh, so you're saying asking a question over a phone wasn't possible until the phone was invented?
AtlanticPENUMBRA
Remember that time we dropped thousands of dudes into Nazi controlled Europe with radios? Yeah, it was a thing. Radios.
Counterfit
They weren't applied to phones until the 80s, though
heeeynow
there was call forwarding. 20 years ago. so not common but not new
trelina
What if you missed a call from a number you didn't recognize, called it back and your husband answered. Where are you?
jrau18
Even that is only relatively recent. Still over ten years old.
Glumerlink
over 30 years old*
WowSuchDoge
The iPhone is nearly 10 years old. The internet is nearly 20 years old. I think you underestimated how fast time goes.
OutdoorHuman
In the history of human communication, it is. Don't be pedantic.
jrau18
Well, no, it still isn't. In their example, it's CALLING someone. So you're restricted by the invention of the phone.
OutdoorHuman
You make a fair point; however, the history of communication over distances really includes letters which had to be addressed. (1/2)
OutdoorHuman
I will concede, however, that things such as signal fires and lights, etc. did not presume the location of the recipient. (3/2)
OutdoorHuman
If you want to restrict this to electrical communication, the electrical telegraph was in use in the early 19th century. (2/2)
smc1987
This is a seinfeld bit. If you mean 20 years ago it was recent, sure.
cyfy11
Earth is billions of years old bruh everything's recent
smc1987
Recent is in relation to our lifetime, not how long the earth has been around. Jurassic park isn't a classic from the Jurassic era
pyrobob4
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pyrobob4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
PowderPuffPancake
This is brilliant.
001111000000
I welcome our robot overlords
Iaimtomisbehave
http://imgur.com/fVVI5
FelixTheAnimator
That plus the algorithms breeding humans thing...
orion44
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
toriscool
Thanks
theclevernamegoeshere
Yes. Tis the stuff of nightmares.
Ihmhi
That's the one that frightens me the most.
Efreeti
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
Smajdalf
Great article on that point: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
LloydWaldo
I, as a human, find this funny joke to be funny. As humans enjoy humorous jokes... so I too, as a human do also enjoy them... too.
ChristopherEdwardHansen
I'm sorry Dave, i'm afraid I can't do that.
pyrobob4
The creepy thing about this is that my real name is Dave, and at first I didn't realize you were quoting the movie.
Lindholmarinatorn
illuminacho
TimTheScifiGuy
As a sci-fi writer, this is my #1 topic. But idpm Humans too often act dumber than they are to achieve something.
TimTheScifiGuy
This is when I wish imgur would let me delete a messed up post. Anyhow, I meant to say: NI (natural intelligence, ie us) does this too.
50Rails
Don't worry, AI's programmed to deal with the Turing test are just running algorithms to answer questions, not ask them, or act on their own
RoomTemperatureCoffee
"running algorithms to answer questions" and "acting on their own" are in no way mutually exclusive.
TywinStannister
Found the AI.
Mistruths
*SI
Gawky
Sentient Intelligence...
Smajdalf
for now
Glumerlink
Yeah...we're not really to the point where AI are capable of adaptive reactionary behavior in a controlled environment
TheShredDoctor
But when they do ask questions... "Does this unit have a soul?"
mrfuckingfeeny
Do you want Geth? That's how you get Geth.
DeadlyGrim
"The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do." -B.F. Skinner
PuppiesStartedEveryWar
Yes, an AI can fool a human but there's nothing there, just complex instructions. Humans are much better: We can even fool ourselves.
InboxMeYourOods
Beyond that. When AI becomes more than complex instructions.
PuppiesStartedEveryWar
What I'm getting at is it will never be more than that. Instructions of vast, labyrinthine complexity, sure. But still instructions.
djrip
If a brain can do something, a machine can be built that does the same thing. It may indeed be all instructions, but if so, then so are we.
InboxMeYourOods
Yeah you're right. Don't program the "Take over the world" function and it won't.
ilooklikenataliedormer
Yea not necessarily... There are many ways to get a computer to pass the turing test.. All of varying "intelligence "
djrip
I don't think an AI will beat the Turing Test that way; a sufficiently thorough tester will not be fooled unless it thinks like a human.
SweetZombiJesus
Exactly.
br3adcrumbs
Or so you think...
Bashtur
But... Lego's patent expired a while ago. As long as lego's logo isn't on the piece, it's not illegal to print.
Bashtur
I think
hsnk
"lego's logo". I said that out like 10 times. I need sleep :(
iDrinkDrano
Lego's logo
heyiorderedacheeseburger
Lego's legless logo?
iDrinkDrano
Leggo my Eggo legless Lego Legolas.
MnemonicMonkeys
I no one going to mention how much more expensive it is to do this?
xbxoxy
Yeah i was thinking the same
TheBreaux
The big issue there is the precision, which is difficult with modern 3d printing, especially consumer level, and the use of high quality ABS
hyperinthediaper
This.
nothankstoyou
This was literally the conversation with my husband before bed. I was complaining that all the girl legos have the triangles for dresses.
Bashtur
hey I don't know anything about the technical aspect of it, just the legal part! :p
TheBreaux
I'd imagine there's no real issue if they're just for personal use, though IP laws are insane enough that I could be wrong.
travishawkins2199
I hear a tongue twister in there
imadogperson
The pieces sure, but sets they make are their property.
ladycygna
Lego sets are irrelevant, and just a modern thing. In my times they were just a lot of pieces and the pic in the box was just an example.
Bashtur
that's true..
Aaronb1138
It would make more sense to 3D (CAD) mill steel molds and inject ABS at decent pressure. Current consumer FDM printing sucks.
Aaronb1138
Consumer FDM is akin to first gen 9-pin, 60 DPI dot matrix printers. Not worth investment. Daisy-wheel, later 24-pin 360 DPI & inkjets ftw.
AGrammeIsBetterThanADamn
Neither would you design and build a $30,000 injection mold for a one-off part. Each process has its application.
AGrammeIsBetterThanADamn
It doesn't "suck", it just isn't the right application for producing 10,000 plastic, tight-tolerance, high-precision parts. That'd be PIM.
RichardJohnsonTallywhacker
Well, that is how LEGO does it. But it's more economical for an individual to print imperfect parts unless they want 1000s of one piece.
Aaronb1138
Except the part where consumer grade milling equipment can product a good enough mold well below 30k.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
A 3D-printed Lego brick would be soft and mate terribly. Lego's plastic is injected at really high pressures with tolerances ~10 μm.
RichardJohnsonTallywhacker
They actually work ok in my experience. Not perfectly, but ok.
Annemoon
They probably don't last very long
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
PLEASE make a video. Even if they're like Mega Bloks I want to see that.
Zaayl
Same can be said for Mega Block and other off brands, nothing beats the real deal. Lego has defended their simple concept with quality.
Esplodin
Too bad you can't just buy a bucket of legos anymore.
NeoVoidStar
Yes you can: http://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Creative-Bucket-10662?fromListing=listing
Zaayl
given that my sister got exactly that this Christmas, you absolutely can.
Thegamer211
"mate terribly" Lol'd
Melinyel
For a second I had just assumed that "mate" was how Lego enthusiasts refered to connecting pieces together, and it made perfect sense to me.
IseeallofthesepeoplewithlongusernamesandIdecidedtotryitout
That is what it means.
Melinyel
Really? I should have stuck with my gut then, my second thought was that they meant to say "soft and made terribly" which also made sense.
NotRick
Same here, little brick. Same here.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
You don't want to see their offspring.
yoshi
soft? why?
MisunderstoodAsshole
Lego's are made from pressure injected molds. The plastic in compressed. When 3D printing its loose in comparison.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Well, I read a bit on that and I may be wrong.
yoshi
yep, i think that might be the case. i 3d printed a thing that had a 1mm edge and it was fairly hard..though not unbreakable
willunconditionallydownvoterepoststatistics
Sort of correctish. My printer uses abs plastic, like legos. I can print them, and if the flow rate is right, they will work, but still, 1/2
willunconditionallydownvoterepoststatistics
There are layers, and they can pull apart under enough pressure.
Glumerlink
By comparison to legos it would be soft, the material would feel hard but it might not be able to stand up to someone stepping on it
Liamy321
What if you used abs instead of pla? @glumerlink
yoshi
ah, so brittle
WMSYOT
Thus disarming it.
Raven2785
You fool. don't you realize the only thing worse than stepping on a Lego, is stepping on a Lego that breaks into sharp edges?
CyberAkuma
So you're saying we can 3D print legos that won't hurt to step on....
Glumerlink
or they might hurt more as they break and become jagged edges, one or the other really
Ihmhi
Apparently, I'm a 3-D printed Lego brick... ;_;
Robvp
Brittle might be the word you're looking for
MisunderstoodAsshole
No soft. Diamonds are brittle.
AGrammeIsBetterThanADamn
It has more than two properties, it can be soft AND brittle. And less dense, the root cause of both.
MisunderstoodAsshole
False. A material is brittle when it can't deform under stress. A less dense material has more room to be ductile. Soft means easy to deform
ArcaneM37
You use greek letters to sound smart, but your science is all wrong... and I use 3D printed legos that worked just fine.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
OTOH, you should post a GIF of a brick being printed and mated. Not to prove anything, but because it's damned cool.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
I used μ because I was going to put the injection pressure without a 2nd message, but couldn't find it (it said "90 tons" - wrong units).
ArcaneM37
But the plastics used in 3D printing vary greatly; you'd never choose a soft one for something like a lego brick; and lego bricks Do work.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Yep, someone prompted me to find out more and turns out I may be dead wrong. Mating to the side features will depend on the printer.
CreepyPhlox
J0765
If you are obsessed with technology, yes you'll keep up. The average person can barely keep up with what's going on even now.
Sakkura
My grandfather was in the resistance against the Germans in WWII, and he was actively using the internet by 1997ish.
AsAWhiteWoman
Ditto that, my grandpa was online until the day he died in 2004, he asked for a laptop in the hospice so he could continue learning Java.
tarataqa
As a 57 yrold, I try to do this. I'm more techno-inclined than my parents, but defining a virtual network topology for my Amazon VPC is hard
ChanceTheHuman
Well I'm 19 and had to Google half the terms you used so I'd say you've got nothing to worry about haha
larperchicksrule
I concur. My husband is IT and I'm studying animation/graphic design/programming. If we fall too far behind, we're fucked out of work.
GozerTheGozerian
"I'll always be with it." ~ Homer Simpson
aceoaces
Agreed. I fall behind on website/app trends though. Instagram and Snapchat seem like elements of the next generation.
jrau18
My boss is 70 years old and we're selling state of the art POS systems. We're about to watch a webinar on a tablet-based system.
Shlits
You're selling state of the art Piece of Shit systems?
DerekAwesome
point of sale ;) what every single brick and mortar store uses to take ur money
jrau18
Once the customer gets done telling us what they want, yes. (POS is point of sale)
srsbizness
Sorry, I draw the line at embedding technology into my body. I won't be part of the cybernetic era.
JayeRod
technology advancements are like human knowledge. you cannot possibly keep up with everything. you will be lost one day :(
greatgoatman
True, but it can be easy to let things slip. I try to remember, when helping people use the computer, that brain jacks and VR sims 1/2
greatgoatman
aren't going to be as natural and easy for me as typing on a computer, which I've done for decades.
mountainofpuppies
they're teaching kids to program from a young age now, will you do that? You can't imagine the future, it's why it's the future.
Tanishh
Yes, but there are 70 year olds who don't know how to use a computer while other 70 year olds text and use snapchat and stuff.
moarphysics
Programming is like writing to me. To learn a new P.L. I just look up the syntax and within a week I'm good. Those kids have nothing on me.
mountainofpuppies
you are one of the survivors! i learnt basic linux(not programing) and a bit of perl.. i can't stand the stuff
moarphysics
I was kinda like that once too, I knew some VB and C# from linux. After learning physics and math I had a use for Programming for modeling..
jrau18
"You can't imagine the future, it's why it's the future." Lol, what the fuck does this even mean.
mountainofpuppies
do you think your great grandparents could have imagined today's tech? mars rovers, carbon nanotubules, genetics, quantum comps? Think.
Glumerlink
They could if they followed sci-fi writers of the time
jrau18
Maybe not MY grandparents, but SOMEONE imagined it. That's why it IS the future. Someone made these things. They thought of them.
mountainofpuppies
but that's not in this context, we're not talking about the tiny minority inventors but avg. joe and it was done in steps not leaps
xboxnolifes
I don't need to imagine it, I just need to learn it when it becomes available.
mountainofpuppies
w/ the ever increasing prerequisite lv of knowledge to use tech nowadays, you might someday surprisingly find urself behind the curve
CreepyPhlox
One doesn't need to know how to make technology in order to use it...
mountainofpuppies
the prerequisite lv of knowledge for the use of technology is ever increasing. Easy to imagine falling behind the curve in 30-50 yrs time.
TheyCallMeTheDoc
I don't agree with the one being unfamiliar with technology.. Tech came upon them blindly, I was born into it.
HighwayWizard
Current (and future) generations were/are born with incredibly rapid technological advancement. They'll likely be able to keep up 1/2
HighwayWizard
2/2 because they grew up with and are very used to new technologies happening all the time.
ImpBattery
So your grandparents probably said of washing machines and dishwashers.
russiandollsarejustsofullofthemselves
Molded by it... they did not see technology until they were adults, and by then it was nothing to them but BLINDING!
maximinusthrax1
Technology as we know it is tightly intertwined in our daily lives. We constantly learn and adapt to new devices. I dont see that ending.
MajesticallyRidingAShark
I agree, I was going to comment the same thing. We've grown up in an age of constantly changing technology so we just adapt
saucefornoreason
So were they. Black and white tvs became color, airplanes, etc. You are just using the word technology incorrectly.
agamemnonymous
Everyone for the last thousand generations or so was born into technology. Modern tech will become ancient, what replaces it will be strange
PatrickAupperle
As a CS major, I feel as though I'll always keep up with technology, just as my 60+ year old professors have.
datGuyInTokyo
What you don't seem to realize is that they could say the same thing about them and their parents.
exurbcowboy
People who have grown up with massive advances in technology will be able to adapt to new ones.
MusculusSternocleidomastoideus
True, and, my parents and grandma are better with technology than I am, so it doesn't work for me at all :)
cambopalmer
The younger generation isn't going to benefit the same way we did. http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/
BigHairySandwich
Several times he talks about Ubuntu. And I gotta admit: That program is shit! I've had several problems deleting it from my mother-in-laws..
BigHairySandwich
Computer, and the shit ended up wrecking the harddrive because it terminated the windows 7 install and then you couldn't even boot from a CD
cambopalmer
i can't tell if this is sarcasm. ubuntu the operating system, right?
BigHairySandwich
It is, and it sucks, no sarcrasm
prettierandyoungerbutnotanybetteroff
I THINK I won't be "that guy" since I love computers, but then I remember that I despise instagram/twitter/snapchat, so bitch I might be.
imbluebabadee
Very good Master Bane. Very good.
goodguyC
Really? I mean, look at kids these days...they literally play with ipads before they can walk!
GozerTheGozerian
"I'll always be with it." ~ Homer Simpson
CynicalFish
My dad is a senior software engineer :/ Knows way more about technology than I do.
DoCollegeProfessorsDreamOfElectricTermPapers
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chazma
I agree and disagree with you. tech has been around since the invention of the wheel. its that we are a generation of rapid learners...
chazma
rather than the older generations who were taught a different set of skills such as... old person skills...the weed only brought me this far
SpoonOfDoom
Molded by it.
dreamsicle
Your comment wins today for me.
IuhhhCANTTHINKOFANYTHINGCLEVER
Thank you
SamWiseGambit
Calm down Bane the spoonofdoom
CyberAkuma
I didn't have internet until I was already a man, by then it was nothing but DIALUP
DoCollegeProfessorsDreamOfElectricTermPapers
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theblackcanaryyy
Just you wait my friend.... just you wait
ARodianInEwoksClothing
I remember thinking that way :(
Nienista
Yeah, there is this study about how as you age it actually gets more difficult for you to keep up. They will learn.
faulerwulf
Not all parents are unfamiliar with technology either, that's a case-by-case thing
SnibbleTiggits
There will be something invented we can't even fathom right now. How do you think our grandparents feel about the internet? (1/2)
SnibbleTiggits
When they were born they couldn't even fathom the concept of the internet, then BAM it exists. Something like that will happen. (2/2)
Supanini
But that doesn't mean I won't make an effort to keep up with upcoming tech, especially since I'm a computer science major
SnibbleTiggits
As a fellow Comp Sci major, i agree. But most of the people on this planet wont lol
sweetnaivety
my 89 year old Grandpa uses the internet all the time! He calls me on skype a lot, too.
delecti
There are plenty of older people who are just fine with tech, and there are plenty of young people incompetent with it. Always will be.
Laimbrane
See, the thing is, once you have kids, job, spouse and house, you don't have time or money to keep up with the new technology. (1/2)
Ambroos
That's the cool thing about working in tech, being gay and not wanting kids. ALL MY LIFE IS TECH.
TheyCallMeTheDoc
I have a house, wife, a full time job in the military, the whole works.. yet being of an age of rapidly advancing tech. I can keep up fine.
Laimbrane
Priorities change, and at some point, you realize you have no idea what the difference is between an iPad and an iPod. (2/2)
FindYourChillMate
Bullshite. People buy those things for their kids. Its not too much effort to read a couple things on the internet.
ihaveacatonmyshoulders
Ahhh,sweet summer child...
Supanini
Why do you keep posting that? Also there is a space after the comma
NanoNago
I disagree. You'll get a job, a family, eventually you'll become too busy to keep up with the latest... But your kids will know.
VidiVeniThenSheLeft
Yeah, this entirely. I'm 27, and I don't have the time to keep up with everything like I did as a kid. I can feel myself slipping that way
TheyCallMeTheDoc
I have all that, and they don't come first.
malign
Not everyone wants to have a family and kids. Especially in our day and age.
NanoNago
I don't have a family or kids either, but I do have a job and a partner, and I still don't have time to keep up with _everything_.
PatrickAupperle
As a CS major, I don't think keeping up with technology will be a problem. My job will be to keep up with technology.
NanoNago
I'm a software engineer, but I specialize deep in specific areas. I have no idea how to use my phone, for instance.
PatrickAupperle
I was certainly exaggerating by saying it is a CS major's job to keep up with such things, but many of us do. My professors, even (1/2)
PatrickAupperle
keep up with technology very well. My Architecture professor was retired from the industry (teaching for a semester only) wrote Android apps
NanoNago
Nobody can keep up with useless gizmos faster than kids. Your time to be a clueless geezer will come! "Cobol!! Fortran!!" GRANDPA NOOO
PatrickAupperle
I don't know why you assume that. Someone living alone on a CS salary can keep of with gizmos pretty well.
NanoNago
I just think it's foolish to think you'll never be out of the loop when you're old, just because you're CS.
NanoNago
That even educated adults in the industry don't seem to know quite as well. (2)
NanoNago
It's just my experience. Some people do keep up very well. Nobody BECOMES a grandpa, but there are tons of things that kids know (1)