This might be sort of funny, except it is an actual quote from Karri Kuoppamaki, Vice President, Technology Development and Strategy at T-Mobile.
Don't get me started on how they all think one of the uses for 5G technology would be to help the operation of driverless cars. I mean, what could go wrong?
One might add that 5G has been shown to be an effective decay-preventive dentifrice that can be of significant value when used in a conscientiously applied program of dental hygiene and regular professional care.
ReplyDeleteWe're all going to get cancer from it and die.
ReplyDeleteOur conveniences are killing us.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking we need to stop training people and start educating them. We need more classical education. We have all this techno shit but we don't seem to know what to do with it, or if we do (seem to) we create these monstrous behaviors that you see on Twitter and Facebook, perversions of social interaction, and acquired narcissistic traits. Maybe Don is right--I have come to see the (hidden?) wisdom of Burning Man, what it seems to stand for. Maybe we have extended ourselves, as human animals, too far. We don't need 5G. Not really. Hell, I don't actually need to know what time it is, let alone via a device that gets its timing from the U.S. Naval Time Keeping Whatever, and my kid isn't going to lose $80,000 of potential lifetime income because he languished in Kindergarten without learning how to code web sites before entering elementary school.
ReplyDeleteSigned--angry Luddite.
I wish we could return to some kind of benign innocence but come on. Human history is the history of repression, superstition, ignorance, and one war after the next through the millennia. I agree, en-masse we sorely lack education and even more so wisdom, but tossing it all off won't bring back an innocence that never was. We made this mess and, either we use our education and resolve to clean it up ASAP(ie NOW), or it will destroy us. Right now it's not looking so good.
ReplyDeleteI see what you mean--we can't really go backwards, but still I believe that without a classical education and the broader perspective it would hopefully bring, who will be motivated to try to fix things, and separate what we need from what we don't need?
ReplyDeleteBut, yeah, right now we need some technology chops to tackle some of this stuff. Just with some sort of perspective other than quarterly earnings and what shape buttons Apple is going to put on the iPhone next month.
Anyway, what time is it? Somebody changed all the clocks. Am I supposed to be sleepy now?
Yeah. :(
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