What do you hate about technology?

[Ryuukie]

Yes, I'm jumping on the "What do you hate about..." bandwagon.

There are so many things to love about technology -- why it's brought us JUB! But there's a lot to hate, too. For example, today I brought a brand new PC. I tote the heavy fucker to the office, unpack it, set it up, plug it in, turn it on and I get this eerie message: "Reboot and select proper boot device." So, I call Staples and the guy says, "oh-oh. Looks like you got a bad one. Bring it back and we'll give you another one."

That's what I hated about technology today. What about you?

 

[G-Lexington]

The fact that it's moving forward faster than the bugs are worked out of it. We seem to get a new standard for computer system or cell phone or camera...just about the time we've figured out all the bugs of the previous one, and how to work around them. Now we get a whole NEW set of problems to figure out how to work around!

A more specific bitch - every computer program seems to have "a major critical update" that simply HAS to be downloaded NOW. Which requires most of my computer's time and energy to download, after which point I need to restart the computer. Sometimes three or four times. And now, and only now, can I use the program I already had, but now with bonus material I won't use, and generic reshuffling of buttons that I now can't find.

Lex

 

[BabiGayPimp]

White the intuitive controls on Apple's "i" devices are easy to locate and operate, I generally hate the trend toward labeling critical controls with arcane symbols that don't give you a clue about what those controls are really for. Apple has somehow succeeded with this, but many other brands have failed.

 

[JOHN B]

It is scary how dependent we have become, on technology "making our life easier". Mankind has the technology today to build bombs which could knock out ALL electric equipment, cars, computers, lights, radios, without harming people or building structures themselves.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_bomb

Only 150 years ago this would not have cause any problems...even 80 years ago, life would have adjusted, and we would have moved on. But NOW, in TODAY'S society, this would cause problems that we would NOT easily adapt to; because we no longer have the "know how" to live without machines doing things for us.............

 

[kevbo]

That they haven't made a dick sucking robot yet...

 

[kevbo]

*sigh*

Transpogue, you just don't get it.

I seriously want to face fuck Bender from Futurama.

 

[davy]

My gripe is that it is limited or denied to some people only because of economics.

The fact that schools have to wonder if they'll be able to afford a proper computer network...that problem shouldn't exist.

Don't deny kids opportunities for learning and growth just because a few CEOs want a seventh yacht.


(Yes, I know I'm portraying this simplistically, but I hate that access to proper technology is limited by someone's economic status.)

I hate how this belief and others like it have been created by those ceo's and bought wholesale by the rest of the world.

I also hate how our educational standards in mathematics and mechanics have been reduced to such a level that it helps to support this belief.

 

[JOHN B]

LOL----I remember being told while in high school, (so many years ago....) that "Computers are going to erase our use of and need for paper. We will become a paperless society by the time you grow up." Ha.

 

[FabFairy]

I'm with Lex having to critical update and the other is that the computer programs keep wanting to connect to the internet while using the software feature even if they don't need to.

 

[G-Lexington]

>>>That they haven't made a dick sucking robot yet...

Get with the program, girlfriend.

>>>It is scary how dependent we have become, on technology "making our life easier".

I'm shocked how quickly people forget. Our business went "all computer" one day in April. In July, the computer system went down...and I was the only person who remembered how to do things manually. Three months.

Lex

 

[LilBit]

Actually a paperless society is becoming more and more of a reality every day. Print media is becoming extinct. The Seattle PI went to an exclusive digital format. E-Book readers are becoming more and more common place. Computers are becoming increasingly being introduced into the classroom, handwriting is becoming more and more extinct. The only time that I really ever write is when I have to physically sign some document.

And almost all of the forms at my university are available online.

But you have to print them out and submit them in hard copy.

I've seen the printers at the campus computer labs. Paperless campus, my great aunt Harry.

As for what I hate about technology? The fact that it's obsolete before I've even paid the bill.

 

[Kester]

The only really applys to computers but I hate that I never know how to operate them properly.

Gets me so fustrated and pissed off.

And even setting thimgs up like my TV and shit. It is never as easy as what other people says it is.

I guess I'm just a bit technology retarded.

 

[Gussss]

I hate that when the power goes off, there is NO technology at all. When there's a power outage you have absolutely nothing. I live on the MS Gulf Coast and after Hurricane Katrina, without power for weeks, it got BAD, REALLY BAD!!!!

 

[G-Lexington]

Thank God for books.

Lex

 

[Yooper]

My cell phone.



The roof of my car leaks, too.

 

[alley]

I guess, what Dislike about cell phones and computers most is that I feel the loss of personal freedom in someways. It seems I HAVE to be available to people anywhere/anytime or there is something wrong and they take it personally. It can become an issue if I miss a call or have not checked my e-mails that day---sometimes, I just need to be off on my own.


Really hate text messaging, just FUCKING talk to me damn-it.

 

[gsdx]

I hate how people use it as a status symbol and companies which prey upon such people keep producing new technologies which are unnecessary.

 

[SonOfSlobone]

First time I bought a Dell computer I had a great "out of box" experience, I was up and running in minutes.

Last time was completely different. They tortured me for half an hour with having to respond to "special offers" before I could do anything, and set up parameters I had no interest in (they seem to assume that all of us at home have multiple users or are running a LAN).

It was supposed to come bundled with Microsoft Word, but every time I run it, they tell me it's not installed and to re-install it from the disc (which I don't have). And lots of other stuff like that.

 

[braex27]

I hate that I can't live without it... I hate that when I get most comfortable, something comes out that makes everything comfortable obsolete and I have to start again... I hate Microsoft... I hate that the world depends on Microsoft... I hate that Microsoft knows that the world depends on Microsoft...

...that's enough ranting for now.

 

[biguy732]

I enjoy and embrace technology - but I think that it is also quickly getting to the point where we are losing our privacy. Now, I am not ready to move to Montana and start a militia and start working on conspiracy theorys - but just go to zabasearch.com and look yourself up - it is pretty scary. Or even pipl.com - this is where I have problem with the technology. We are losing our privacy whether we do it voluntarily or not.