Titor right on we were lazy?

creedo299

creedo299

Epochal Historian
Titor right on were we lazy?

I do not tend to agree with said John Titor, that this era was full of lazy people.

What we as a society are going through now, are continued social technical revolutions.

This is so, as the home P.C. has broken out of its homebaseand has now divested to wearable objects for people.

There is also the home robots and possibly androids on the horizon.

I cant accurately express enough, how big a technological horizon that mankind is going through right now, with the possibility of everything, including mankind himself becoming computerized.

Here are some examples I have posted below.

A what's happening device, offered by MSN host page.

http://msndirect.com/default.htm


The cell phone and cell phone networks.
This device takes mankind into the area of communications with anyone, while the travel, at almost any time and under almost any weather confd dtion.

http://markson.net/cell_nh_unicel.htm

http://cingularwireless.com/

http://www.soulinvitation.com/buehler/hendaye.html


The portable computer, which were a few years ago from the timemark of this post, laptops were rather large cased computers to lug around, however now they are shrinking.
The Sony Vio is one of the smallest slimline laptops that I know of.

http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_BrowseCatalog-Start?CategoryName=cpu_VAIODesktopComputers&Dept=cpu_VAIODesktopComputers&DCMP=MSN_SEARCH&HQS=DT_sony%20vio

Wearable wrist held computers.Small computers that can be possibly wrist held?

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/01/06/newyear.trends/

http://www.ebusinessforum.com/index.asp?layout=rich_story&channelid=3&categoryid=7&title=McKesson+HBOC%3A+Improving+quality+with+wearable+computers&doc_id=1498

http://www.inoman.net/computers/keyboard.htm


The GPS or exact global positioning system.Which gives a person a watch-like device, that can place him accurately anywhere on the Earth, within a few meters of their desired goal?

http://www.aero.org/publications/GPSPRIMER/


http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/

Cell phone nets.

http://cellphoneforums.net/f16

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0%2C1759%2C1628533%2C00.asp

What I'm trying to say here, is that it takes on the average of six to eight years, in some instances to for man and wimen to learn a new primary technology down pat.

What has happened since the very first homebased computers were introduced in the 1970s, is that other items, which are mankind wearable and also come along from the rise of this new technology, also advance and grab man's attention in the process.

So concurring with said author Alvin Toffeler, in his Future Shock book, we have been on one big learning curve, with computers since their inception, say in the late 1960s to seventies.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553277375/104-1862026-1619962

Report cards were filled out via punch cards, in the 1960s, in some areas of the country.

So mankind as Titor would have seen it, is not lazy, however is very occupied in learning how to deal adjust and learn all new constantly changing technologies?

Titor ,may have misinterpatied or misunderstood us.

>Graduate of the Norcross School Of Computer Repair.
 
Yeah well, 'whatever'.....i say.

the Masses of todays society are distracted more than anything. To live in todays world, you can't afford to be lazy. And yes, fast progress is being made many areas - as you say. Again this shows just how socially unaware 'Titor' actually is. Note how i say 'is' not 'was'.
 
A note on the links not opening:

On the links that I have given here, to me they are not opening on this page.

Simply request-up another homepage, copy the URL and then paste in that second homepage seeker.

The link URL should open.

>The Aaaah effect and what it is?:

This is a multi-timed posting board.

So people, beings, from anywhere could be reading this board at any time?

If you don't know what the Aaaaaggh effect is, from Toffeler's books, then I will describe what some people are, have, been going through and this involves the comedic.

From Don Adams, the comedian on a rough, stage opening for his comedy act:

Adam's say>When I started out, I went to this one nightclub and it was a packed house.

I can't describe how nervous I was and I knew my act was coming up soon.So I was pacing the floor back and forth and really worried about blowing my opening that night to the point of being frantic.

I saw the band back stage and you know, those musicians have been known to always carry a little something with them.Something as a helper, in order to get through their long night of playing?

So I asked them for a little help.

Well'.. they rolled up the biggest bomber, (marijuana cigarette) that you ever did see in your entire life.

They lit it for me and I took a puff.......Nothing happened but I did feel a little more relaxed.

Well back then starting out, I didn't know anything about this drug, or its effects on a person.

Well they announced my name and I ran out on the stage to do the monologue and all of a sudden I was petrified by fear.
"I mean I was speechless and so afraid of all those people out there in the audience, that I could only stay stiff and utter one sound, and this was Aaaaaagghh!!

The audience had not idea what was happening as I could not move, but was facing them and could only say aaaaggh!

Everytime I did this the audience started to roar with laughter, but still had no idea that I had to much of that stuff, marijuana'.. or whatever you call it?

However, my standing there in-front of the crowd scared sh*tless, seemed to have brought the house down with laughter.

I guess the moral of the story is, don't go to the boys in the band, when your in trouble.FIN

Retranslated from a live interview with Don Adams, comedian:

What I have relayed here, is pretty much what people in this new technolgigical age are going through and have gone through at some time or another.

The amount of technology that they're throwing at people, is so huge, in a way very similar to the very fine comedian, Don Adams, everyone at times, goes Aaaaaagggh!
 
All those breakthroughs come with a cost though. We need increasingly massive amounts of energy to be secure to enjoy that kind of rapid growth. John spoke as if he was forced to work all his life diong manual labour. He sounds a little bitter he missed out on being able to sit at a desk all day. Mmmm. Cheap oil /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
i agree with him that the majority of the human population is lazy. i forget the percentage, but a lot of americans are overweight. people spend their time sitting infront of the tv or computer, and don't exercise much. and then they eat junk foods.
 
ARTHUR:
There! Look!
LAUNCELOT:
What does it say?
GALAHAD:
What language is that?
ARTHUR:
Brother Maynard! You are a scholar.
MAYNARD:
It's Aramaic!
GALAHAD:
Of course! Joseph of Arimathea!
LAUNCELOT:
'Course!
ARTHUR:
What does it say?
MAYNARD:
It reads, 'Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Arimathea. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of aaaaaagggh'.
ARTHUR:
What?
MAYNARD:
'...The Castle of aaaaaagggh'.
BEDEVERE:
What is that?
MAYNARD:
He must have died while carving it.
LAUNCELOT:
Oh, come on!
MAYNARD:
Well, that's what it says.
ARTHUR:
Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't bother to carve 'aaaaaggh'. He'd just say it!
MAYNARD:
Well, that's what's carved in the rock!
GALAHAD:
Perhaps he was dictating.
ARTHUR:
Oh, shut up. Well, does it say anything else?
MAYNARD:
No. Just 'aaaaaagggh'.
LAUNCELOT:
Aaaauugggh.
ARTHUR:
Aaaaaggh.
BEDEVERE:
Do you suppose he meant the Camaaaaaargue?
GALAHAD:
Where's that?
BEDEVERE:
France, I think.
LAUNCELOT:
Isn't there a 'Saint Aaauuves' in Cornwall?
ARTHUR:
No, that's 'Saint Ives'.
LAUNCELOT:
Oh, yes. Saint Iiiiives.
KNIGHTS:
Iiiiives.
BEDEVERE:
Oooohoohohooo!
LAUNCELOT:
No, no. 'Aaaauugggh', at the back of the throat. Aaauugh.
BEDEVERE:
N-- no. No, no, no, no. 'Oooooooh', in surprise and alarm.
LAUNCELOT:
Oh, you mean sort of a 'aaaah'!
BEDEVERE:
Yes, but I-- aaaaaah!
ARTHUR:
Oooh!
GALAHAD:
My God!
[dramatic chord]
[roar]

MAYNARD:
It's the legendary Black Beast of Aaauugh!
[Black Beast of Aaauugh eats BROTHER MAYNARD]
BEDEVERE:
That's it! That's it!
ARTHUR:
Run away!
KNIGHTS:
Run away!
[roar]
Run away! Run awaaay! Run awaaaaay!
[roar]
Keep running!
[boom]
[roar]
Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh!...
BEDEVERE:
We've lost him.
[roar]
KNIGHTS:
Aagh!
NARRATOR:
As the horrendous Black Beast lunged forward, escape for Arthur and his knights seemed hopeless, when suddenly, the animator suffered a fatal heart attack.
ANIMATOR:
Ulk!
[thump]
NARRATOR:
The cartoon peril was no more. The quest for Holy Grail could continue.
:D
 
i agree with him that the majority of the human population is lazy. i forget the percentage, but a lot of americans are overweight. people spend their time sitting infront of the tv or computer, and don't exercise much. and then they eat junk foods.
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"Overweight" does not equal "lazy." As a matter of fact, that comment is discriminating and prejudice.

From Dictionary.com:

3 entries found for lazy.
la·zy ( P ) Pronunciation Key (lz)
adj. la·zi·er, la·zi·est
Resistant to work or exertion; disposed to idleness.
1.Slow-moving; sluggish: a lazy river.
2.Conducive to idleness or indolence: a lazy summer day.
3.Depicted as reclining or lying on its side. Used of a brand on livestock.


Nowhere in this definition do you see the term "overweight" or anything that implies being overweight. A good friend of mine is "overweight" and he is a far cry from being "lazy." He's published several novels, is a philosophy professor, has six children and edits a well established literary journal. I'd hardly call him "lazy." On the contrary, he is one of the most ambitious people I've ever known.

However, I would call your reply "lazy." Your stereotypes and thoughtless typifications bring to mind a certain intellectual "idleness" that is all too prevalent in today's world. You not only buy the social cliches, but you're not even intelligent enough to think your way out of them.

Regards
 
yes, i agree i am lazy. but don't judge my intelligence, because you don't even know me. i'm lazy, but my ideas and opinions are my own. just go to my website and see how different i am for yourself.

usually overweight people don't get much exercise, or else they wouldn't be overweight. just because your friend and other people in general are active in their careers and families doesn't mean they're not lazy. a lot of people are ambitious with jobs and families, and they're still lazy. everyone in america is lazy. it's part of our culture.

and insulting me is not an intelligent way to make an argument, so don't insult mine. don't be sensitive. i didn't mean to offend.
 
everyone in america is lazy...
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I don't know who you have been observing, but I know many, many people who are far from being lazy. Those that don't even own a television set and spent an enormous amount of time achieving some goal.

My father for instance, is one of those who works from sunrise until sunset. At 84 years of age, he is still out there working, and not because he has too,( he has made a fortune in his carrer), but because he feels things that need doing must be done.

He doesnt collect social security, but still earns a paycheck in the workforce. The friends of his are the same way. Always working on something. You never will see any of them not working on something.

I also know many people in Toastmasters International, a communication and leadership organization, and almost everyone involved is far from being lazy.

And in addition, I lived in a small town, basically self-relient, and there wasn't time to be lazy. The things that needed doing we all pitched in to complete, or the community would suffer from allowing certain conditions to continue.

Now, I hope that you arent confusing fun for lazy. Even though we worked our behinds off, doesnt mean we didnt have any fun, either.

When comments are made, they really should not be all inclusive . Some americans are lazy, and some are not. Some people all over the world are lazy, and some are not.
 
You're absolutely right, OvrLrd!

In fact, the facts do not support even a broad generalization that Americans are lazy. The facts say just the opposite! We tend to work MORE than most other countries. We are second only to Japan in having the shortest average number of paid holidays per year. We also work lots of overtime, and many people work two jobs to make their dreams come true. Some of us work two jobs because we enjoy our work. I work full time as an engineer and part time as a professor of engineering.

SOME are lazy (in all cultures). But as a country, the US has accomplished a helluva lot in the past 100 years.

RMT
 
yeah those people you described aren't lazy. i guess i just haven't been around a lot of non-lazy people, but that's probably because most of the people i'm around are young like myself. i think each generation gets lazier and lazier. older people tend to be more hard-working. but even most of the old people i know (like my grandfather and parents) are lazy.
 
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