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While a person might be able to keep the home computer off and not use it for a whole day, I doubt that same person could go that same day without using any computer at all.
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A Saturday? That's easy, since I tend to do it anyway. Usually out doing something with the wife & kids. I think that question is completely different for college students, though, since most of them (on-campus ones, anyway) have full-time net access.
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If this includes embedded systems, it would be very difficult. All microwaves and ovens made in the last ten years would be out. Any TV likely to be still working would be out. Digital clocks. Cars made since the seventies. All cell phones, all digital portable phones, and I'd bet most other non-rotary phones too. And that's just on the user end, since the POTS switch is almost certainly digital.
So you'd have to spend this particular Saturday at home or within biking distance (unless you have an old car), not talk to anyone on the phone, never look at a digital clock, never watch TV, and only eat cold or stove-made things. Not impossible.
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I shut down my laptop the whole day when I went to the Star Trek convention in Pasadena last year or when I was at a film festival all day this year. Besides it's a Sat when they wanna do it.
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: If this includes embedded systems, it would be very difficult. All microwaves and ovens made in the last ten years would be out. Any TV likely to be still working would be out. Digital clocks. Cars made since the seventies. All cell phones, all digital portable phones, and I'd bet most other non-rotary phones too. And that's just on the user end, since the POTS switch is almost certainly digital.
So you'd have to spend this particular Saturday at home or within biking distance (unless you have an old car), not talk to anyone on the phone, never look at a digital clock, never watch TV, and only eat cold or stove-made things. Not impossible.
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I'm tired of these things...these, Turn off Your TV day, Turn Off your Computer Day...why don't we just have Go Without Deodorant Day or Turn Off your Fridge Day? I mean for God's sake, we invent these wonderful machines of technological splendour and leisure, and then we all decide we should stop using them on certain days... I'm tired of being told its somehow 'bad' to spend time online or watching TV or having a cellphone glued to my ear. I *like* those things. </rant>
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Just gettunf us ready for that big solar flare (and accompanying EMP) that the government knows will hit soon....
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As long as that cell phone is not glued to your ear while you are driving, I won't have to kill you.
Technology is all well and good, but the western world is too dependant on it. Not a day goes buy that I don't see some business man or soccer mom jabbering away on thier cells while they're cruising through an amber light. I wonder what would happen if all the TV, Radio, and phone/internet services went offline. Nothing really life threatening like food, water, or power. There would still be riots and pandemonium because of all the people who can't live without thier precious luxuries.
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Theres a gadget that does nothing but block cell reception for about 100 ft- I want one for my car soooo badly. Mant times I've narrowly avoided injury/death due to some ass talking on his/her cell while driving.
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Then there's always the "Rise of the Machines"....
Children of the Western world now think that milk comes from the grocery store. And how many of today's kids even have chores to do? I would bet that less than 2% would even have a clue about planting a garden to raise food for the family. Being born in the 60's, I had to help my grandparents in the garden, worked my summers in construction with my uncle starting in the 7th grade, and most of my Saturdays I was mowing 5-10 yards for money.
Too reliant on tech? Yeah, I'd say so. Even worse is the fact that today's youth have been brought up with the X-box and not a work ethic.
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