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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: 5, Insightful) by caffeine on Friday November 06 2015, @11:56AM

    by caffeine (249) on Friday November 06 2015, @11:56AM (#259390)

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @03:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @03:42AM (#259805)

    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.