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elizabethv
9/26/2016 1:00:01 AM
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Re: AT&T 4K TV
@mpouraryan - I've actually thought about that - the limits of technology. What are they? Where are they? I'm not entirely sold that they do exist. In fact I recently saw an article that a few scientists were successful at teleportation recently - both in China and then replicated in Canada - I believe. Don't quote me on that. Even what we may see has "enough" for me, DVD's and a 10 year old flat screen TV do the trick right now, with my WiiU as my device for cord cutting. But for my 4-year-old? Who knows where the limit will be for him. Which is likely the problem, is that while the limit may be determined by the individual, it will be the largest number of individual's with similar limits that will likely set it for the market.
mpouraryan
9/26/2016 12:39:43 PM
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Re: AT&T 4K TV
What I think our deliberations here at TT and above is illustrative of is how we're limited by the very power of our imagination and believe in the art of the possible--it is true as Ari noted on the consolidation--but I just hope that choice continues to be ever so present. I wonder if that would happen if the giants get ever more powerful at the expense of the rest of us.
JohnBarnes
9/26/2016 8:11:56 PM
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Re: AT&T 4K TV
ElizabethV, MikeP,
Rousseau posed the problem all the way back in 1762, in The Social Contract. He pointed out that as soon as the bow and arrow was developed, men who still wanted a goose or duck dinner became much less proficient at throwing rocks; once the horse was domesticated, no one had to run quite as fast anymore; and so forth. As tech gets better, more and more, it cares for us, and though it may enable us to do many things we couldn't, it also reduces our capability through atrophy in a large number of areas.
Or you could also cite a great piece of early sci fi -- Ralph Milne Farley, who asked his readers "Could you make a radio?" -- not meaning, could you make one by getting the parts in the shop, but, here's some flint, here's some firewood, you have the resources of the planet, go make a radio.
The eventual limit is a helpless (but happy) blob of protoplasm in a tank.
elizabethv
9/27/2016 6:48:45 PM
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Re: AT&T 4K TV
@JohnBarnes - I think what you are describing is the movie Surrogates. I'm not going to lie, I've contemplated the benefits of such a life.
To me - the biggest atrophy I have noticed at the hand of technology seems to be a loss of creativity. Which is tragic and confusing, because in many ways, I would have thought technology would give life to creativity.
dlr5288
9/30/2016 1:12:41 PM
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Re: AT&T 4K TV
I agree.
I'm natrually a very creative person and to see the lack of creativity today is so sad to me. I know that technology is bettering the world in many aspects, but that means that creativity is getting pushed off the side.
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