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A new ad, I think by Microsoft, has some celebrity claiming that "this is the future we always dreamed of." It irks the you-know-what out of me.
America today is so not the future I always dreamed of. People over 55, or even people who recall life before the internet, if you weren't too scared to even think of what life after the year 2000 would be like--what was the future you dreamed of? Did it just involve love and community and your family? Did it extend beyond the people you loved and cared about? Did it involve technology or any material thing at all?
I think for a lot of people who grew up on Star Trek or the Jetsons or Back to the Future, or any of the other gazillion tech-heavy TV shows or movies often dreamed of what technology could do. What's so wrong with that?
I think for a lot of people who grew up on Star Trek or the Jetsons or Back to the Future, or any of the other gazillion tech-heavy TV shows or movies often dreamed of what technology could do. What's so wrong with that?
Alot of those same people do not realize there was something enacted in 1951 that basically ensured none of this technology would ever see the light of day....The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951.
Had this not been done and was not still in place today, I believe we would see much greater technology than we currently have.
Alot of those same people do not realize there was something enacted in 1951 that basically ensured none of this technology would ever see the light of day....The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951.
Had this not been done and was not still in place today, I believe we would see much greater technology than we currently have.
Well personally, I'm pretty damn amazed with the advances we've made even just in my lifetime. I'm not greedy.
A new ad, I think by Microsoft, has some celebrity claiming that "this is the future we always dreamed of." It irks the you-know-what out of me.
America today is so not the future I always dreamed of. People over 55, or even people who recall life before the internet, if you weren't too scared to even think of what life after the year 2000 would be like--what was the future you dreamed of? Did it just involve love and community and your family? Did it extend beyond the people you loved and cared about? Did it involve technology or any material thing at all?
Future? after Vietnam just having a future at all has been enough for me........count your blessings.....
Alot of those same people do not realize there was something enacted in 1951 that basically ensured none of this technology would ever see the light of day....The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951.
Had this not been done and was not still in place today, I believe we would see much greater technology than we currently have.
Wow, I never heard of this. (Break-time Google work.) I'll be interested to know if this Act is British or American.
Wow, I never heard of this. (Break-time Google work.) I'll be interested to know if this Act is British or American.
Its American. I just learned about it 6 months or so ago. Reading about it on Wikipedia is really interesting!
It basically enables Govt to classify and withhold inventions or technology that could have negative economic effects on existing industry or effects Govts ability to exert its authority in anyway. Some of Nikola Teslas inventions were suppressed using this act, and they remain classified to this day!
There is also a Freedom of Information document/ list of some of the technologies this act has been used to suppress over the years, lots of stuff having to do with vehicles and vehicle engines!
I think it was right about the time NASA was repurposed as a muslim outreach program and we started having to hitch rides from the Russians to get in to low orbit that I realized the future I had envisioned as a child was officially dead. I agree with the poster who said our future will more closely resemble "1984" than it will "Star Trek". What I once looked towards with hope and wonder I now anticipate only with disappointment and apprehension. We had so much potential and we've wasted it.
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