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 mendax on Friday November 06 2015, @08:22PM
I said with proper maintenance. The surface needs to be ground down to adjust for the shifting slabs, and cracked slabs need to be completely replaced.
The stretch of I-80 I was referring to was built right after the end of the war, in 1945, as part of the US 40 expressway between Vallejo and Sacramento. In the early 1960's it was widened with an additional outside lane, also concrete, and converted into a freeway through the construction of interchanges. By the time the state paved over the concrete two years ago the newer outside lanes were in awful condition thanks to the heavy trucks chewing up the pavement. But the original lanes were still in pretty good shape. So you see, old concrete can last for years.
Incidentally, there is another stretch of freeway nearby, most of which was built almost 40 years ago. The concrete was recently ground down and smoothed over even though it was in pretty good shape anyway. Now it's as smooth as a baby's butt.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.