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Post by Gilberto on Aug 10, 2010 18:41:56 GMT -5
Sean, Brooks and Greg return to the topic of fixing the future by talking about baby names and Facebook. Is our obsession with social networking and cell phones evidence of a deeper need to connect with each other? Or are we just attention-obsessed? traffic.libsyn.com/darkcrazy/TVAMD_future2.mp3 |
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Post by drivebyluna on Aug 12, 2010 13:38:06 GMT -5
As Greg knows I am an avid facebooker. It's addicting. I use it as a place to share my photos and to post weird crap I find on the internet. Really I could probably start a blog much like Geekologie where I post random stuff but I doubt anyone would read it. Facebook is more accessible.
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Post by lynn on Aug 14, 2010 0:34:52 GMT -5
yeah, I like knowing what Greg is having for dinner, facebook rocks!!!
Also congrats to our newest TVAMD daddy. Good Luck.
Oh, also, for the future, I want one of those microwaves that takes a plateful of bones and reconstitutes a whole baked chicken. Chicken good!
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Post by drivebyluna on Aug 14, 2010 12:41:08 GMT -5
Perhaps a Timecrowave?
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Post by Glip on Aug 17, 2010 7:23:34 GMT -5
Timetravel would certainly fix both future AND past, or destroy both. Whatever, timetravel gives me headaches.
One thing I was surpirsed you guys didn't mention in both last shows was nano-technology.
Not the scary well-known "Resistance is futile" type nano-technology but if you look at medical and industrial types that's being researched today the possibilities sound quite positive.
Oh...and it's been mentioned in many Star Trek episodes but never fully explained;
How does the economy of the future work? Will we be paying in Facebookdollars? Myspacecredits? Or if I can't pay the bill in my local cafe should I offer instead to clean the barkeep's harddrive?
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Post by Gilberto on Aug 17, 2010 17:44:13 GMT -5
Star Trek puts forward the idea of a utopia so perfectly realized that money is no longer necessary; they just all go off doing whatever they feel like. Who are the janitors in Star Trek? Is it all robots? I'm not sure a de-monetized society could function, but there's room for debate on that. They suggest they operate on some system of credit, but without a basis for credit I'm not sure how it would have any meaning? Does Picard have better credit because he's a spaceship captain? If so, then their enlightened no-money system is a load of crap. And how do they trade with other cultures like the Ferengi, who are all obsessed with money?
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Post by lynn on Aug 17, 2010 22:59:00 GMT -5
Maybe they sell them their microwave chickens?
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Post by Glip on Aug 18, 2010 5:57:51 GMT -5
Just rub their ears and the Ferengi are no problem. Or in Riker's case offer your mother in law ( <-- nerd alert?).
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Post by lynn on Aug 18, 2010 20:35:01 GMT -5
you mean the Ferengi will take your mother-in-law off your hands and pay you for her? This is an idealised future!
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Post by panic on Aug 19, 2010 3:10:14 GMT -5
Incidentally I'm a police dispatcher and we have indeed used Facebook and MySpace both to locate runaways and to investigate suicide threats posted online. As far as lurking around the interwebs to see what Gilberto is up to, no one has that kind of time. I suppose if Sean were being investigated for selling drugs or a number of other ongoing investigations we could assemble a list of "associates" using these social media sites, but that would be about it.
Real life ain't no CSI, it's more like Barney Miller.
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Post by lynn on Aug 19, 2010 20:57:56 GMT -5
You outta investigate Sean for telling us to keep a mellee weapon and ball gags in our boots. And I think Greg wants to eat people. If I was going to run for political power I would never on a podcast admit to being ok with cannibalism. Unless that was going to be my platform. solve the overpopulation and food crisis all at once. I think that joke's been done though. Still, I got swords in my car boot, can't complain. They're legal I swear!
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Post by drivebyluna on Aug 20, 2010 1:13:30 GMT -5
It's like a modern version of A Modest Proposal!
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Post by broox on Aug 30, 2010 11:05:24 GMT -5
Heed my warning: Facebook will one day bring about the downfall of man... Ok probably not, but for every responsible adult sharing baby pictures and fun links there's one of these (I doubt this girl will ever escape this) NOT REALLY WORK SAFE www.lamebook.com/2009/12/21/hooked/ |
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Post by lynn on Aug 30, 2010 18:32:42 GMT -5
Oh no! That girl really shouldn't have written all that stuff down so someone could find it. Really this could have been embarrassing on facebook or not, he would have just handed the list around at school if there hadn't been facebook. So the lesson really is don't commit anything to paper ever.
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Post by drivebyluna on Aug 30, 2010 20:08:01 GMT -5
This is kinda why I'm glad youtube wasn't really around when I was in high school. I just made an idiot of myself in front of my local school and not the whole world.
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