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Technology misuse

 
 
Fist Fun
18:08 / 06.11.01
E-mail

I send an e-mail to the HR department asking a simple question that reequires a one line answer.
Instead of mailing me back, a woman phones me up, I'm not in, she leaves a message asking me to call back, I call her back she isn't in, I leave a message, she calls me back and gives the the morsel of information which would have taken ten seconds to type and press send.

Websites

Websites that hide the useful content behind pointless gimmicks and bad design.

...ok that is two examples of technology misuse that bug me. Anyone got any others?
 
 
Rose
22:28 / 06.11.01
Metronome#@$$%@#$ http://www.metronomecanada.com/

If only they would leave this poor old building alone.

Hubs - why oh why? We have switches and routers, why God why?
Users - technology is, without fail, misused by the unforgiving user.
VR, TV, and the like - made for people who just don't want to live.

My point is... Shouldn't technology be use to advance our society (or intellect)? Instead we melt, our minds are intellectual blackholes. Well, except for the people who develop these technologies, of course.
 
 
tom-karika nukes it from orbit
10:55 / 07.11.01
i will have a very perfect example of bandwidth abuse. it WILL be sent up. My computer WILL NOT collapse under the strain of more than 2 kb/s. it will prove the point about content/gimmick ratios.
 
 
Saint Keggers
01:25 / 08.11.01
What I hate is those stupid Ronco type products. Has anyone of them ever benefited mankind in a possitive manner???

Yeah but you know whats really reassuring? The fact that somewhere, some guy is still making a living by making abacusses. He'll have the last laugh...
 
  
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