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What Technology Should Be Un-Invented?

posted by martyb on Friday November 06 2015, @07:54AM   
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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• Re:Easy Re:Easy (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday November 06 2015, @03:05PM

  by urza9814 (3954) on Friday November 06 2015, @03:05PM (#259471) Journal

  Who the heck still irons clothes?

  Seriously...I don't even own one of the damn things.

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• Re:Easy (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @04:11PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @04:11PM (#259504)

  You don't own clothes? :-)

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• Re:Easy (Score: 1) by J053 on Friday November 06 2015, @09:52PM

  by J053 (3532) <{dakine} {at} {shangri-la.cx}> on Friday November 06 2015, @09:52PM (#259685) Homepage

  I don't own an iron - or a suit for that matter.

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