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What Technology Should Be Un-Invented?

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

AnonTechie writes:

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: 3, Funny) by TheSage on Friday November 06 2015, @10:14AM

    by TheSage (133) on Friday November 06 2015, @10:14AM (#259360) Journal

    But that is the point. I do want the bad guys (and only the bad guys) to have access to selfie sticks.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by OwMyBrain on Friday November 06 2015, @03:04PM

    by OwMyBrain (5044) on Friday November 06 2015, @03:04PM (#259469)

    If you outlaw selfie sticks, only outlaws will have selfie sticks.

    • (Score: 1) by kazzie on Friday November 06 2015, @06:44PM

      by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 06 2015, @06:44PM (#259583)

      Well that'll make it easier to identify and arrest them.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @10:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @10:59AM (#259905)

    the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a selfie stick... is a good guy with a selfie stick

    you can pry my selfie stick from my cold dead hands... after i die using it