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[curieuse]

QUIZ TIME:
What commonplace item/event do you think we will look back on
fifty years from now as laughably barbaric/primitive/ridiculous?

Tonight's nominations:

1) Dental drills
2) Chemotherapy
3) Power cords
4) Ground war

Please add your own.

Comments

[normalcyispasse.livejournal.com]

I vote 3, power cords.

Dental drills will always be useful in some form, even if they are lasers.

Chemotherapy seems like it will probably stick around. Remember what happens when cancer in most dangerous step? There are four steps: First step, second step, third step and most dangerous step.

Already, devices exist that can transmit power without cords. Development on this will only grow.

Ground war will always exist. There are always countries that will be developing capabilities for UAV/ICBM/naval-based warfare, and when every country has these capabilities we will return to ground war as a means of innovation.

[curieuse.livejournal.com]

Add your own, mister.

[wuruiqiu.livejournal.com]

I vote dental drills. At least the kind that actually drill into your teeth. They will be replaced with painless lasers, making trips to the dentist not as scary.

I don't know enough about 2 and 3 to weigh in on those. And I'm a pessimist when it comes to human beings and war....

[need4cognition.livejournal.com]

Either 1. or 2.

[insanetimbo.livejournal.com]

definitely chemotherapy! oh man are our kids going to laugh. I think in fifty years they wont call it the internet anymore.

[fortifiedi.livejournal.com]

Dental drills will probably be with us for a while.

Chemotherapy - definitely gonna go totally obsolete. The idea of pumping poison into the body to cure it will no doubt seem very barbaric.

Power cords are going away for small devices but will stick around for devices with larger power needs, so they won't seem totally outrageous.

No matter how far civilization advances, there will be ground war on small scales.

I would like to add: Ritalin

[(Anonymous)]

Dental drills will probably be with us for a while.

Chemotherapy - definitely gonna go totally obsolete. The idea of pumping poison into the body to cure it will no doubt seem very barbaric.

Power cords are going away for small devices but will stick around for devices with larger power needs, so they won't seem totally outrageous.

No matter how far civilization advances, there will be ground war on small scales.

I would like to add: Ritalin

[cheekyweebisom.livejournal.com]

Excitement over consolidating small electronic devices.

HOLY SHIT IT'S A CAMERA AND A PHONE! NOW IT'S A PHONE AND A MUSIC PLAYER AND AN INTERNET BROWSER! (Of course, it can't really hold anything, but we'll gloss over that.)

So I don't actually think this is going away, but I'd really like it to. Honestly, is it that hard to carry a tiny camera AND a tiny phone? The answer is no.

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

Watches

(I'm reading Faster at the moment...)

[cuterpillar.livejournal.com]

Movie theatres. Drive-ins are already extinct, and movies can be downloaded to our other ridiculously over-hyped small electronic devices, so I think conventional movie theatres, even mall-sized multi-plexes, will go the way of the dinosaur and the tan M&M.

I miss tan M&Ms... they were my favorite. I know Mega M&Ms have something like tan, but it's more of a taupe, really, and not the same. Off topic, I know, but... there you have it. Movie theatres.

Justin's nominations

[(Anonymous)]

1. DVDs (please, God let that scratchable media die.

2. a distinction between television and the internet.

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[(Anonymous)]

Because we tend to automate everything.

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