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Always imagine everyone using tech like this, slowly using their own slang, then something goes wrong, devices die, and no one understands the slang languages e
by nxzero 10y ago
Always imagine everyone using tech like this, slowly using their own slang, then something goes wrong, devices die, and no one understands the slang languages each person now uses.
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Person : Babel.
Person2: Babel?
Person : Babel!!
- saalweachter 10y agoTo a certain extent, this is equivalent to "imagine everyone's glasses fell off and broke". Sure, these devices are more complex and only a handful of people know how they work, but by the time they spread through an entire civilization and we adapted to be unable to communicate without them... they'd be as robust as modern day glasses and you'd have repair services in every mall.
- nxzero 10y agoMaybe, maybe not, but agree that your version of the future is just, if not more, as possible. That said, more complex things get, the more likely that something will be missed, an error made, and/or unaccounted for due to its not having been seen before. On the bright side, intentional disruption rarely have this sort of impact.