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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @07:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @07:51PM (#259616)

    Specifically, usury. There is a very good reason that it was a capital offense to charge interest through the majority of written history. It was considered worse than violent rape as the sexual rapist is sated shortly while the banks are never willing to stop.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @12:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @12:36AM (#259753)

    That's real cool, equate ripping somebody off for a few bucks with physically raping them.

    Let me ask your mom if she'd rather pay me five dollars a month or just get raped bi-weekly.

    Idiots.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @05:02AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @05:02AM (#259822)

      Let me ask your mom if she'd rather pay me five dollars a month or just get raped bi-weekly.

      That would be prostitution, the oldest profession. Legal through the ages until recently.

      Idiots.

      Right.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @10:50AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @10:50AM (#259904)

        Let me ask your mom if she'd rather pay me five dollars a month or just get raped bi-weekly.

        That would be extortion.

        ftfy

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @07:09PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @07:09PM (#260066)

          I don't think you know how English works. If you change words in a sentence, that changes the meaning of that sentence. The new, different sentence no longer has any bearing on the original.