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posted by martyb on Friday November 06 2015, @07:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the inventions dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @09:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @09:03AM (#259343)

    To get this inevitable answer off the table:

    systemd

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @10:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @10:21AM (#259364)

    > Technology (from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, - logia)

    Art, skill, cunning, I don't see how "technology" has anything to do with systemd.

    Oh wait, maybe the skill is Embrace Extend Extinguish. +1 to you, sir.

    • (Score: 2) by Geotti on Friday November 06 2015, @02:35PM

      by Geotti (1146) on Friday November 06 2015, @02:35PM (#259449) Journal

      Oh wait, maybe the skill is Embrace Extend Extinguish.

      Maybe someone should trademark iEEE, oh wait...