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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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Original Submission

• Ongoing deaths from nukes (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @09:07PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @09:07PM (#259659)

  Nuclear weapons haven't killed anyone in quite some time

  They tested nukes in the desert near St. George, Utah.
  The John Wayne movie "The Conqueror" was filmed there after that. [wikipedia.org]

  The cast and crew totaled 220 people. By the end of 1980, as ascertained by People magazine, 91 of them had developed some form of cancer and 46 had died of the disease.
  [...]
  Dr. Robert Pendleton, professor of biology at the University of Utah, stated [...] "With 91 cancer cases, I think the tie-in to their exposure on the set of 'The Conqueror' would hold up in a court of law."

  People who bought property there and aren't rich enough to just abandon it still live there with the winds still churning up the irradiated dirt.
  It seems obvious that there are plenty of isotopes still there and still causing cancers.

  -- gewg_

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