Awesome SciFi Things that would Suck
I know the title is confusing but it comes down to this… Science fiction has thought up tons of really cool things that people often think it would be awesome to have. Yet if these things existed in real life they would cause more problems than they would solve. Take, for example, the Star Trek’s (among others) holodeck.
We’re thinking if aliens showed up to Earth 1,000 years after the invention of the holodeck, they’d find a silent planet with 10 billion mummified corpses laying on the floor of 10 billion dusty holodecks, with huge smiles on their faces.
I think you can imagine just what that huge smile signifies… Anything missing from the list at the link? I’m thinking light sabers. It sounds cool until someone loses an eye (and has it cauterized in the process)!
November 26th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Video phones.
People keep trying them, and Apple’s got a pretty decent implementation via iChat (and is clearly trying to get them mainstream by installing a webcam in every iMac and laptop) but no one uses them. I even bought a camera to try and use, and you know what? Everyone has theirs turned off.
You know why?
‘Cause the last thing I want to do is see your stupid face when I talk to you. That way you’d know exactly what I was doing when you yap on about your boring life and I didn’t care! And I don’t want to get ready to answer the phone, be properly dressed, my hair (well, scalp in my case) neatly arranged, and all that crap! I just want to mumble hello when you wake me at noon, and then lie about not being asleep.