Broken Promises of the Future

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Prudence

So you wait until I'm gone to have a perfectly splendid tinfoil hat thread?! Hrmph! I feel welling inside me a manifesto presenting Corporate America *as* Big Brother. Must be the week spent around my dad.

Considering my recent work experience, I think your manifesto would be well recieved - if not blocked...

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Considering my recent work experience, I think your manifesto would be well recieved - if not blocked...

Sing along boys and girls -- you know the words! Rise of corporate entity to "person" status...legally, economically, and politically sanctioned supremacy of corporate "people" over flesh and blood people...shift to service economy and away from skilled labor...shift away from employer/employee loyalty...perception that employees are interchangeable and disposable...fracture between concepts of "job" and "career"...proliferation of employee conduct codes that go beyond the workplace, plus methods for monitoring that conduct within and outside the workplace...

That's the condensed version.

[Name]

We've come close, I suppose, with the palm pilot, taser, and cell phone, but they don't look as nifty, nor make the same cool sounds.

You've not hear the people talking on the Nextel Walkie Talkies?

But now that i think about it, I don't remember really expecting anything outrageous by this time. Looking around though, I see many places that we have stepped backwards and revisted technologies of the past, for example, watched some PBS show where there are folks making full blown houses out of bales of hay. Almost nostalgic to the pyramid days, except those were mud and straw mixture. But I don't remember ever having a thought that I would have such a powerful computer sitting next to me in my own home, or that I would be able to walk around anywhere and be reachable by phone at anytime(almost).

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by Name

You've not hear the people talking on the Nextel Walkie Talkies?

Sure. Used to have one, in fact. I was including that type of device in the cell phone catagory but the more I think about it, the Nextel two-way radios are probably closer to the communicator than a cell phone.

[Ghoulish Delight]

How about the fact that medical diagnostic tools remincent of tricorders are coming very close to being reality. The technology to gather data about what lies beneath your skin by waving a device over it exists. Now it's just a matter of finding meaningful interpretations of that data.

[innerSpaceman]

Moving sidewalks is so broken of a future promise that they've even removed it from the "new" Space Mountain.


As for me, I was certain personal space travel would be available by now.



More important, and not to kill the buzz of this lighthearted thread ... but growing up in the 60's I was sure that 2005 would see no more racism, no more misogny, no more homophobia, no more religion and no more war.

I'm really rather disappointed.

[€uroMeinke]

I stumbled upon this site tonight and thought it appropriate to add to this thread

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Here's a promise come true.

[Not Afraid]

You NEED to listen to the DEVO interview from the other thread. NEED.

[Kevy Baby]

I thought I would be older by now