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: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @08:43AM
Fire
(Score: 5, Insightful) by inertnet on Friday November 06 2015, @10:36AM
Religion
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @09:16PM
Technology == applied science
Religion == believing without proof (or even when there is is scientific proof to the contrary)
The 2 are orthogonal.
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @02:44AM
true when you think of science in its pure form
however, many people have as much blind faith in science as any religious person
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @05:04AM
No. Human technology predates science by at least 50,000 years.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday November 06 2015, @12:12PM
If we really want to stop it at its source, what about those darned "opposable thumbs" and "bipedal locomotion"?
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @01:34PM
If you really want to stop it at its source, go for digestion. Get your energy peacefully through photosynthesis, instead of by eating other life forms!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Friday November 06 2015, @05:17PM
That's no good: Aren't you familiar with the Oxygenation Catastrophe [wikipedia.org] of 2.3 billion years ago?
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 5, Funny) by tangomargarine on Friday November 06 2015, @05:02PM
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"