Things technology cant replace

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thought you guys and gals could help me with a list…

I’ll get us started:

THE BOOK

I’m sure Bill Gates probably thinks we should all drop the old paperback, and start reading 500 page word documents. But as we all know - if its more than 20 pages - you gotta print it out.

Secondly, have you ever tried taking your laptop to bed to read? Doesn’t work for a) Comfort b) Laying on your side c) falling asleep.

Thirdly, I have many friends who like to read in the loo/toilet … and I think it looks kinda odd walking in the little room with a laptop.

any other candidates for this topic?

Discuss

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so u mean things that current commercially available technology cant replace?
because boks as we know it, will have a replacement, and it will happen in our lifetime.

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:konfused:…i dnt understand it

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Which is why you have e-books. You can read them on your PDA, which is rather easier to take to the toilet than a laptop. Best of all, since you can fit the PDA into your pokcet, it looks completely normal when you walk into the toilet.

PDAs are also easier to take to bed.

Amd if the PDA doesn’t suit you, then dedicated e-book readers are on the market that are the actual size of a book.

So technology has replaced the book

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Sex

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^^ you unno nothin about dat denn

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I agree. Books can't be replaced. Its not that much fun to read an e-book or magazine. Laptops and PDAs are fine but printed version is still better.

photomerge
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cool breeze read up on what smart page technology is in the works, and you may se that technology would blend the best of both worlds. it would nto be reading a book on a clunky pda or an awkward laptop at all. the stuff that I am talking about has been in development for some time

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Umbrella - I dont think technology can replace your circular protection from rain.
Heck, even Steven Spielberg couldn't replace the design in his futuristic Minority Report.

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unless technology creates a forcefield around you which prevents items heavier than lets say err air to enter your personal zone. Its entirely possible.

or a smart umbrella that hovers above you and even pivots based on direction of the rain.

you guys need to think outside the dabba.

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hmmm Interesting

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haan theek keh rahay ho
agar haalat yehi rahay tu bachhay bhi internet say download hongay

and probably come out of the printer...

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a hug.

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technically possible

if you have

1)donated sperm and egg banks (exist already) or even if it is one’s own sitting in a bank

2)artificial uteruses (in development now)
and

3)ability to teleport matter (experiments have started)

then technically it is entirely possible.

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Gives an entirely new meaning to

“you have got male” :blush:

Larkiyon! Yeh Hy Larka Patany Ka Tareeqa
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frauds - I think you are confusing sci-fi with feasability. There is a valid argument re: if you can imagine it, you can achieve it - but lets not get ahead of ourselves by "inventing" - star-wars stylee.

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Technology cant replace your mothers love, among many other things

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maa ka pyar and aam ka aachar

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hitchki

who is talking about "current’ feasability. or sci-fi?
we are talking about future possibility, and the stuff that I mentioned is not quite sci fi, its an area that steps are taken already..small early steps, but its not just fiction.

in the sceanrio that we talked about i.e. lets see what is possible today

  1. you dont need to have intercourse to have a child there are sperm banks and egg banks there already
  2. you dont need to be pregnant to have a child. thorugh gestational surrogacy

so, technically is it possible right now, to place an order online and get a baby in 9, well 10 months, yes. I mean yes you have moral and legal boundaries.

but, imagine this, you log on to the site of one of these facilities that have sperm and egg donators, u make a purchase, the lab fertilizes the egg and then implants that into a surrogate. she gives birth and they have someone travel with the baby and ring your doorbell.

This is feasible today.

now lets look at the possibility to removing a living surrogate mother out of the equation. That would mean a uterus that err is free standing.

as far as artifical uterus goes. in 2002 there was an experiment at Cornell where cultured cells were grown to make a uterus. embryos were introduced which did implant and started growing. experiment was topped due to regulations though, but it just goes to show that in future it may be possible.

in tokyo at the same time there are studies being conducteds to create a uterus like environment.

This has shown results and could be possible in future.

last is the delivery mechanism, rather than have someone drop off the kid personally, do we have access to teleportaton.

initial successful teleportation experiments took place in australia and in europe in 2002 and 2006. While this is very initial and no one knows whether it would ever be possible to teleport living beings, but the fact that they have been able to take a ste in this direction means that there is a chance.

so…technology can replace this as I indicated, barring ethical and legal stuff, you can have a baby today by using donated sperm/eg and a surrogate mother. rest is a matter of human replacement which has seen positive initial results, and delivery mechanism approach which may be possible at some point in time.

one can not say it is, or is not possible. we dont know, a potential exists though.

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Impressive sales pitch as that was..:hehe: I think you are on your own there kiddo re the “we”. Besides, I wasnt picking holes in artificial wombs and uteri (is that the plaural?) - the transportation methodology amused me. As did your apocalyptic condemnation of short-sightedness.