Roger Hicks
Veteran
Yes, the trouble is that an impressive number of self-proclaimed futurologists are wooly-minded computer addicts living in big cities. People who say, "No-one needs a private car" mean, "I don't need a private car because I live in a big city and am completely lacking in imagination." As for Skype, that IS a land line, unless you use satellite. There's just a difference in the reliability of what happens when the land line comes into your house. On top of all this, there are still surprisingly many people who are not on the internet -- and they ain't all 'old people'.
Cheers,
R.
btgc
Veteran
Sure, but like as with medicine, one has to think if prescribed medicine is necessary or sufficient. Despite technology people have to think. No device or technology will displace human mind. Film can be replaced by more current technology, mind can not.
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
For better of for worse, web startups are a middle-aged people thing.
iPad and Android apps, for better or for worse, are a young people thing.
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
For better or for worse, absolute blanket statements are tunnel-vision things.
Things that work in one place, for better or for worse, don't work in other places.
Many people on the intertoobes forget that the intertoobes are not representative of the industrialized world's population as a whole. There are also many places in the U.S. where people still use modems to connect...not because "they're old" or "anti-technology" but because these things are simply not available.
People ought to stop dismissing things and tell other people they're "old" or "middle-aged" or "young" just because they choose one thing over another or simply, because in their experience, some things are better than others.
For example, Lytro: the damn thing hasn't been shipped yet and people are already complaining how hard to use it is. Or that it isn't just like their camera. Sheez, ppl!
rxmd
May contain traces of nut
You can put that even broader and say that people forget that they are not representative.
sevo
Fokutorendaburando
The vast majority of products sell not because they fulfil an actual need, but because marketing succeeded at superimposing some imaginary social value on an otherwise unassuming, commonplace of even entirely useless item.
brbo
Well-known
Sorry, but this is just another way of labeling a vast majority of people as idiots.
Do I absolutely need a camera? No. Does anyone? I doubt it. Do I enjoy it? F*** yeah! Would my life be much better if I never learned 'picture taking machine' actually existed?
sevo
Fokutorendaburando
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
That's not very good advertising for the advertising industry or their employees. But if that's their fundamental view of the world, who am I to argue?
dshfoto
Well-known
Ordered a Lytro and bought a Graflex 4x5 in the same week -- hedging my bets.