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but rather we have a chipped device most of us literally can't live without - a cellphone.
originally posted by: TheGreazel
Older generations still have the luck they experienced living without these tools , I am from 86 and we did not have Internet when I was young or gps , we had to use maps and books and rely on your own knowledge now everything is on your phone a click away I often wonder what would happen to the current generation if the access to this source of unlimited info disappears , would they be able to adapt ?
originally posted by: Quetzalcoatl14
originally posted by: TheGreazel
Older generations still have the luck they experienced living without these tools , I am from 86 and we did not have Internet when I was young or gps , we had to use maps and books and rely on your own knowledge now everything is on your phone a click away I often wonder what would happen to the current generation if the access to this source of unlimited info disappears , would they be able to adapt ?
I was born in the early 80's. I am grateful that I lived in a generation before widespread computer, cell phone, and internet use. I didn't have my first cell phone until I was about 21. I also didn't have my first personal computer until I was 24.
originally posted by: lordcomac
originally posted by: Quetzalcoatl14
originally posted by: TheGreazel
Older generations still have the luck they experienced living without these tools , I am from 86 and we did not have Internet when I was young or gps , we had to use maps and books and rely on your own knowledge now everything is on your phone a click away I often wonder what would happen to the current generation if the access to this source of unlimited info disappears , would they be able to adapt ?
I was born in the early 80's. I am grateful that I lived in a generation before widespread computer, cell phone, and internet use. I didn't have my first cell phone until I was about 21. I also didn't have my first personal computer until I was 24.
I was also born in the 80's- and we had computers since I was very young. I remember transferring .bat games between computers on the 5.25" floppy disks, and I remember getting a yahoo screen name when the service was launched back in '98 or so.
Been on IRC many, many years.
It's been quite a journey watching the world be swept off its feet by this stuff- and the tide is moving faster than anyone realizes.
originally posted by: Hefficide
a reply to: Azureblue
Not to mention the economics and logistics. It would be an undertaking of unprecedented expense and proportion to forcibly chip the entire population of a state, much less a country. An entity would have to finance the cost of it all, and then hire a huge army to force compliance, a mechanism to track and hunt those who have not been chipped, pay countless medical professionals to implant devices - and so forth. THEN there is the cost of maintaining it all and upgrading the chips every time a better version was developed. Back to square "one" over and over again..
I mean, as a parent, I used a bit of reverse psychology to get kids to do what I wanted them to by telling them NOT to, or vice-versa... but this... THIS... just plain brilliant!
Well; they could put it in a vaccine.
Hell, I'm paranoid, educated, and aware of a fair amount of the nefariousness involved - and here I sit, online, using a high end computer with two cell phones, a laptop, and four tablets all within ten feet of me. LOL
It's pure genius.