Category Archives: technology

Hi-Tech Two Buttons

March 5, 2010 – 8:00 pm

America’s basic introduction to computer came via sci-fi movies and TV shows. The man-made brains had blinking lights and whistles. Worse they disobeyed Isaac Assimov’s primary commandments of robotics. 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey any […]

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Trains From Hell

January 9, 2010 – 8:04 pm

Many Americans thought that the fall of the Berlin wall meant the collapse of communism, however the Marxist government of China continues to thrive by exporting shiploads of shit that American consumers need to feel good ie TVs, cheap clothing, and just about everything else in the malls. The extraction of wealth has led to […]

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Goodbye Goodbye

December 30, 2009 – 4:52 pm

www.businessinsider.com compiled a list of previously vital items gone obsolete during this decade. Pay phones, VCRs, fax machines, dictionaries, encyclopedias, yellow pages, classified ads, CDs, floppy discs, bills in the mail, paper, records stores, landline phones, movie rental stores, camera film, dial-up modems, and palm pilots have been dodo-birded by the technological advances of the […]

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You Ain’t Going Nowhere

December 27, 2009 – 12:42 pm

China unveiled its newest technological achievement; a maglev train connecting Wuhan to the southern city of Guangzhou. The cost of the project was a staggering $14.6 billion or about one month of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Communist nation is planning another 10,000 miles of these high speed lines to be completed within […]

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Abandon Ye Phones

October 8, 2009 – 7:18 am

As a child of the 1950s a telephone in every house was a miracle touted by our nation. My father worked for New England Telephone and our home was blessed with six phones. Only one line, but six phones including three svelte Princess phones. My older brother and I never spoke on those, but we […]

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