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Hearing from the leaders of the tech world is always revealing, and very often surprising. In our second annual Silicon Valley Insiders Poll, a panel of 101 executives, innovators, and thinkers weigh in on some of the biggest technological, political, and cultural questions of the moment.
So when we ran an unscientific poll of leaders and thinkers in tech, we had to ask: Which technology do you wish you could un-invent? What innovation do you think should go "back in the box" and be banished forever?
The two winning responses were: selfie sticks and nuclear weapons.
But let's go through some runners-up first.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/what-would-you-un-invent/413818/
Which inventions would Soylentils like to un-invent?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Adamsjas on Friday November 06 2015, @08:20AM
When people but selfie sticks is the same category as nuclear weapons, you have too assume nobody took the question seriously.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @09:01AM
There's no indication that there was a single person that nominated both nuclear weapons and selfie sticks. Indeed, if I understand correctly, each questioned person could nominate only one thing.
I guess those who nominated nuclear weapons indeed did take the question seriously. Which was obviously not nobody.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @10:05AM
Nuclear weapons haven't killed anyone in quite some time. Selfie sticks have caused at least 12 deaths this year.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @01:30PM
Prove it.
Sure, nobody has been killed by a nuclear weapon explosion. But are you absolutely hundred percent sure that there have been no other deaths associated with nuclear weapons, like, say, someone who was inspecting a nuclear weapon was slipping, falling and breaking his neck?
I mean, nobody has died in a selfie stick explosion either.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Friday November 06 2015, @02:14PM
Slipping and falling? How is that being killed by nuclear weapons.
You could have picked something actually directly affected, poisoned by the highly toxic components while servicing the weapon, perhaps? (toxicity may be more dangerous than the radiation, in fact)
Though my guess is there are more deaths in nuclear power plants per year. And those are likely in the single digits if not less than one.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @02:57PM
So the 12 people who got killed through selfie sticks got actually rammed that stick into their heart or something? I strongly doubt it. I took a type of accident that's likely the closest analogue to the selfie stick accidents.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @08:03PM
1. I'm anyone.
2. nuclear weapons hasen't killed me.
QED
or are you claiming I'm not anyone?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday November 07 2015, @08:29AM
You're not anyone. You're the the author of that comment I'm currently replying to. While anyone could have authored that comment, it was you who did.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @09:07PM
Nuclear weapons haven't killed anyone in quite some time
They tested nukes in the desert near St. George, Utah.
The John Wayne movie "The Conqueror" was filmed there after that. [wikipedia.org]
People who bought property there and aren't rich enough to just abandon it still live there with the winds still churning up the irradiated dirt.
It seems obvious that there are plenty of isotopes still there and still causing cancers.
-- gewg_
(Score: 5, Insightful) by caffeine on Friday November 06 2015, @11:56AM
I've found the perfect way to get rid of selfie-sticks. Just walk up to someone with one and ask where they purchased the upskirt stick. The look on their face is priceless.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @03:42AM
The look on their face is priceless.
The look was actually the realization that they were talking to a pervert, compounded with the question in their mind if they should call the cops, with the fear that you might molest them if they gave you the wrong reaction.
(Score: 3, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Friday November 06 2015, @02:14PM
Fire the nuclear weapons at the selfie sticks. Problem solved.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday November 07 2015, @01:48AM
Selfie! [youtube.com] ( toilet prank ).
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]