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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: 2) by bradley13 on Friday November 06 2015, @12:05PM
To this very day the GUI is slower and lacks features that were commonplace in 1980. Simple example: I never waited, not one second, for my computer. I could type at the speed of thought knowing my input would be buffered and the computer would eventually catch up. Now, every time I try to do anything, a message pops up saying "Please wait" while I'm entertained by a dancing piece of candy.
This. While multitasking is a great thing, I do miss the days when your computer did exactly what you told it, nothing more and nothing less. The disk rattled because you opened a file. The network light flashed because you started a transfer. Action and reaction.
Today, I started up my system and wanted to open a file. The file browser entertained me with a blank screen and one of those dancing pieces of candy. For ages. Open a terminal, type "top", and see that the CIFS process is very, very busy. So something is thrashing the file system, or maybe my connection with the NAS. Why? What? No clue...
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.