Ok. So I am on the couch watching the tube and I see this Kohler toilet commercial. It's an add for a no touch toilet. You wave your hand over the tank and a sensor flushes the toilet for you. My brain cannot seem to comprehend the absolute waste of brainpower to conduct research and create a this ridiculous machine. Anyway, it got me thinking. What other ludicrous inventions have we seen lately that are a complete waste?
Be careful. here is a list of technology predictions that were wrong. http://listosaur.com/science-a-technology/10-infamous-technology-predictions-that-were-wrong/ You just never know where ideas will lead.6
there's a light for the toilet, so you don't have to turn on the overhead light http://illumibowl.com/ '''Enjoy your Toilet Night Light™! Your motion-activated IllumiBowl will turn on any time you walk into the bathroom in the dark!'' this could be one of the college bowl games ..the IllumiBowl !! I think it sounds very cooool..better than the Rose Bowl what about the ''spray on'' hair...it was in an aerosol can..I want some..here come the girls!! this youtube commercial is funny...the people seem so serious ...right up your alley Poppy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GeF7A05zQ8
Robots will be putting everyone out of a job by 2015, so sexbots will fill the void. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188047-by-2025-sexbots-will-be-commonplace-which-is-just-fine-as-well-all-be-unemployed-and-bored-thanks-to-robots-stealing-our-jobs
Wait. Isn't it already 2016? How come I have neither a robot to do my bidding, or a sexbot to do other things?
These things takes time. Remember that lame song from the 60s, "In the year 2525".... That should have been 2025, not 2015. D'oh!
Good call A-58... This is another side interest of mine...We are getting to the point where we can do almost whatever our imaginations allow...only to find out we don't neccesarily want everything that's possible... A favourite example is Cell/Mobile phones...they used to be as big as bricks and the race was on to miniaturise it...we did so well that it became so small that people had trouble using it...so phones have become bigger now...we reached the limit in terms of human use, not technological ability. Like every product, a manufacturer is trying to differentiate their product from the rivals...this can lead to many spurious or unneeded abilities being installed into the product...Toilets that flush themselves, talk to you...play music etc etc...with greater disposable income and technological ability, this will continue in ernest...and as someone pointed out, with robots and 3D printing its only going to get worse...just hope the alians aren't watching...(face palm).
I work in an engineering research and developement department and what you say is true...we constantly change things, put in this, put in that, ...that make things more difficult to manufacture, higher cost for little gain in --as you say--unneeded abilities
The implications of this are interesting. Jobs are at great risk. What happens with billions of young men living in poverty with nothing to do?
