• MrFagtron9000@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The smartphone is the only science fiction thing we have.

    We didn’t get table top fusion reactors, food pills, Rosie the robot, casual commercial space travel, flying cars, hoverboards, etc…

    But we did get a little computer we can carry around that has literally everything in it. It’s a camera, it’s camcorder, it’s a microcassette voice recorder, computer, telephone, book, TV, video conference system, remote control for all my lights, remote control for the TV, a McDonald’s ordering device, instant messenger, magazine, radio, GPS for my car, GPS tracker for my family, health monitoring device, flashlight, Sears catalog - It would probably be harder to come up with a list of things that it can’t do.

    You can take my smartphone from my cold dead hands.

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      1 year ago

      This kind of “single device that replaced an entire backpack of stuff” is why there are no computers in the Dune universe.

      They would make the plots too easy to resolve.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t trust most LA drivers to handle two degrees of freedom (technically one and a half) why the fuck would I trust them with six then?

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        1 year ago

        I agree, in fact let’s get rid of all technological advances humans have made in the past few hundreds of thousands of years. Man wasn’t intended to use “tools” like weapons or agriculture or housing or machine manufacturing. Our ORIGINS say we’re monkeys, we shouldn’t be walking on 2 legs or speaking like this! After all, social sedentary culture and technological advancement is COMPLETELY UNNATURAL and NOT AT ALL a core part of an ““intelligent”” species’ evolution! Ooo ooo aaa aaa