Twitter Account Mocks The Absurdity Of Modern Technology With 30 Hilarious Examples
Modern technology, while useful, has been somewhat of a disappointment to those of us of a certain generation. I mean, it's nice to have access to the sum of human knowledge at my fingertips - as well as order a pizza or a ride whenever I need it - but where is my hoverboard? My flying car?
And while technology can be harnessed to solve the world's most pressing and complex issues - clean energy, mitigating poverty and inequality, curing diseases; just to name a few - we seem to spend an awful lot of time on trying to make the smart technologies even more convenient for ourselves. Who cares if the planet is burning up outside if our home appliances can automatically adjust the temperature inside, using an app that cleverly measures our body temperature thus avoiding the need to laboriously stand up an walk over to the thermostat? Such are the modern times!
The Twitter account Internet of Sh*t recognizes our obsession with frivolous, useless and downright invasive new technologies and there's nothing better than to poke fun at it. Because nobody really wants a world where Facebook controls our money and reads our minds with brain-machine interfaces, do we? Perhaps we could focus a little more on say - an alternative to plastics and fossil fuels - and less on building a hyper-convenient, dystopian world of mind control, data harvesting and artificially intelligent fridges?
Scroll down to check out some of the public shaming from Internet of Sh*t for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments below!
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I can think of a few people that needs this, for some reason their voice volume whilst on the phone increases.
I think most of those people have hearing problems. Even when not on a phone, I've noticed a lot of people raise their voices when the have a hard time hearing something.
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My father-in-law does this. Mainly because he has the TV turned up so loud. I'll come over and hit the mute button for the TV. He'll snap, "Hey, I was watching that!" "While you are on the phone?" "I can't hear you - I'm on the phone!" I swear it is comedy gold living with this guy.
You think technology is your ally, Batman, but you merely adopted the tech. I was born in it. Molded by it.
Now, city of Gotham, you are free to...hang on I'm getting a call...
I just got a Google Home and if this tap is anywhere near as good as that, I'll be wasting 100s of liters of waters every time I want to fill a pan.
I have a box bolted to the ground with a padlock. I leave a note for the delivery person, "Please place in box and close padlock. Thank you." It used to be chained to the post on my patio, and the railing of the walkway before that at each place I've lived. Exactly ZERO packages stolen in 20 years.
All comes out of the same faucet, my city has water fountains with cold filtered water for free
I love eating. Now, why the f*ck would I want to get an electronic fork that destroys the immersion (if you wanna call it so) by annoying me way more than even the most helicoptering parents could? Also, I probably can't eat while it's doing a software update. I'd like to throw it out in the garbage, but my shoes are updating at the moment...
What is funny here is that everyone around the world look at the chinese (asian people in general) as having very similar faces. (I think i did a great job of saying that without seeming racist)
Eh, it’s not like that generation has much of a future anyway. Let them have fun I guess.
Note: this post originally had 39 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
GDPR (or its equivalent) needs to be passed worldwide. I am tired of all of these companies selling my info without my explicit consent.
I work in IT, GDPR is an inapplicable mess, it means a lot more bureaucracy and nothing else, you'll end up agreeing to sell your personal information the next time you try to set up your iToaster or whatever
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right?!?! My favorites are the robot in the grocery store and the internet connected wood XD XD XD
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It isn’t technology that’s the problem. It’s the “desperate to sell s**t” model of capitalism.
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Well I dont feel bad for anyone who went and spent $400 on a smart juicer, or any other these expensive items.
What most people, including those who manufacture this garbage do not realize is that smart technology is that technology that disappears. (Look up the seminal Mark Weiser: The Computer for the 21st Century if you are interested.) A smart home is not one packed with a lot of noticable technology, but one that does what creates comfort, safety, and healthy conditions for you without much (or any) manual interaction. Just hooking stuff onto the Internet, not balancing purpose and privacy, and hooking everything to an ungraspable cloud instead of seeking decentralized solution is exactly against this. Or, in simpler words: if common sense was applied, this list was empty.
But to get there we need to learn about what it is we want. Now a little research beforehand would stop people from making "smart" juicers and blenders though... The shoes and bottle selfies are beautiful examples of gimmicks by large companies. Unnecessary but sometimes inspiring just by the light hearted nature of it. But now imagine driving somewhere new. How much time do you invest in looking up the route beforehand? Even with Google maps I did do tht a few years ago. But not anymore. I trust that tech enough to not prepare anymore. Hell, it saved me 6+ hours on a trip by sending me off the main road for a few miles, in a country I'd never been before, when the only highway before a tunnel was congested with trucks. I can pay bills on my smartphone more easily than on my computer. I have all my favorite books on it. My fridge might not last 20 years, but it is way more energy efficient and has no frost at all. I'm sitting here on a camp site enjoying Bored Panda :)
Load More Replies... That was pretty cool! I like tech but some of these things just seem so pointless and lazy.
As a great (fictional, sadly ;-) man once said, "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
technology is advancing too fast for my taste. Like take airpods for example. Suddenly its popular to have tiny lil white things just chilling in your ears. I stick to headphones. They're not foldable or wireless or bluetooth or anything, but they work and they're cheap so good enough for me :)
Moreover, airpods are too easy to lose. I don't know how many times I lost my airpods to my sofa. And now, I prefer to use headphone because I fed up with it.
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I just adore the fact that there is a blog called the Internet of S**t.
Technology has been made by humans.We are the ones who should control it,control its access to our personal information,control its effects on our personality,on our day-to-day lives.
People may think technology is making us smarter and yes in some ways it does but it also makes us lazier and dumber in other ways. Technology is really starting to take over jobs in a climate where jobs are already hard to come by. Skills and trades we used to use are dying out. We rely TOO much on technology to control our lives. Privacy is also becoming a serious issue, just look at the Amazon key for one, then of course the hackers and more. These are just some reasons why I am a technophobe and also because I struggle with change and learning how to use the technology. Give me simple.
Sorry, I know this is completely off topic, but I'm geeking out over two of my favorite Pandas commenting on what is easily one of my favorite posts! *day made*
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GDPR (or its equivalent) needs to be passed worldwide. I am tired of all of these companies selling my info without my explicit consent.
I work in IT, GDPR is an inapplicable mess, it means a lot more bureaucracy and nothing else, you'll end up agreeing to sell your personal information the next time you try to set up your iToaster or whatever
Load More Replies... right?!?! My favorites are the robot in the grocery store and the internet connected wood XD XD XD
Load More Replies... It isn’t technology that’s the problem. It’s the “desperate to sell s**t” model of capitalism.
Load More Replies... Well I dont feel bad for anyone who went and spent $400 on a smart juicer, or any other these expensive items.
What most people, including those who manufacture this garbage do not realize is that smart technology is that technology that disappears. (Look up the seminal Mark Weiser: The Computer for the 21st Century if you are interested.) A smart home is not one packed with a lot of noticable technology, but one that does what creates comfort, safety, and healthy conditions for you without much (or any) manual interaction. Just hooking stuff onto the Internet, not balancing purpose and privacy, and hooking everything to an ungraspable cloud instead of seeking decentralized solution is exactly against this. Or, in simpler words: if common sense was applied, this list was empty.
But to get there we need to learn about what it is we want. Now a little research beforehand would stop people from making "smart" juicers and blenders though... The shoes and bottle selfies are beautiful examples of gimmicks by large companies. Unnecessary but sometimes inspiring just by the light hearted nature of it. But now imagine driving somewhere new. How much time do you invest in looking up the route beforehand? Even with Google maps I did do tht a few years ago. But not anymore. I trust that tech enough to not prepare anymore. Hell, it saved me 6+ hours on a trip by sending me off the main road for a few miles, in a country I'd never been before, when the only highway before a tunnel was congested with trucks. I can pay bills on my smartphone more easily than on my computer. I have all my favorite books on it. My fridge might not last 20 years, but it is way more energy efficient and has no frost at all. I'm sitting here on a camp site enjoying Bored Panda :)
Load More Replies... That was pretty cool! I like tech but some of these things just seem so pointless and lazy.
As a great (fictional, sadly ;-) man once said, "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
technology is advancing too fast for my taste. Like take airpods for example. Suddenly its popular to have tiny lil white things just chilling in your ears. I stick to headphones. They're not foldable or wireless or bluetooth or anything, but they work and they're cheap so good enough for me :)
Moreover, airpods are too easy to lose. I don't know how many times I lost my airpods to my sofa. And now, I prefer to use headphone because I fed up with it.
Load More Replies... I just adore the fact that there is a blog called the Internet of S**t.
Technology has been made by humans.We are the ones who should control it,control its access to our personal information,control its effects on our personality,on our day-to-day lives.
People may think technology is making us smarter and yes in some ways it does but it also makes us lazier and dumber in other ways. Technology is really starting to take over jobs in a climate where jobs are already hard to come by. Skills and trades we used to use are dying out. We rely TOO much on technology to control our lives. Privacy is also becoming a serious issue, just look at the Amazon key for one, then of course the hackers and more. These are just some reasons why I am a technophobe and also because I struggle with change and learning how to use the technology. Give me simple.
Sorry, I know this is completely off topic, but I'm geeking out over two of my favorite Pandas commenting on what is easily one of my favorite posts! *day made*
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