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Vlad_The_Impaler on scored.co
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Remember when cell phones all had different kinds of chargers?
Then some genius got the cellphone manufacturers together and got them all to agree to micro-usb or usb-c. Stuff like that is good. Like the PCI standard in old computer systems. You didn't always need to buy a whole new computer. You could swap out a PCI card, or swap out a SD-RAM module, or change out the power supply or mother board just by turning some easy access screws.
The laptops and cellphones might be small and compact, but they do not have enough standardized protocols, ports and hubs and parts that are universal and fit, etc.
In a society where it was not just about profit, then this sort of standardization would be beneficial for repairability, modularity, efficiency.
It seems like there's still too much shit that is not universal, still too many incompatibilities, etc.
I feel like technological advancement has actually stagnated quite a bit in the last 30 years. We got the smartphones which was already predictable since old james bond movies.
Also the transportation system in America sucks. It seems that politicians and bureaucrats are too stupid and don't know what to do but to keep making highways wider and wider and wider. We have 10 lane, 12 land highways that take up a huge wide strip of land and is death trap to so many animals.
America is letting the railways fall apart. Our ports are not as efficient as they should be.
I was hoping 3D printing was going to revolutionize how we repair products, being able to 3d print replacement parts. You know how AI is all the rave in 2024 and 2025? In 2011 and 2012 all the rave was about 3D printing. The stocks all skyrocketed. It was all the rave in the media just like AI is now. Then it goes no where and they move to the next stock market sector to rally and sell you on bullshit.
Then some genius got the cellphone manufacturers together and got them all to agree to micro-usb or usb-c. Stuff like that is good. Like the PCI standard in old computer systems. You didn't always need to buy a whole new computer. You could swap out a PCI card, or swap out a SD-RAM module, or change out the power supply or mother board just by turning some easy access screws.
The laptops and cellphones might be small and compact, but they do not have enough standardized protocols, ports and hubs and parts that are universal and fit, etc.
In a society where it was not just about profit, then this sort of standardization would be beneficial for repairability, modularity, efficiency.
It seems like there's still too much shit that is not universal, still too many incompatibilities, etc.
I feel like technological advancement has actually stagnated quite a bit in the last 30 years. We got the smartphones which was already predictable since old james bond movies.
Also the transportation system in America sucks. It seems that politicians and bureaucrats are too stupid and don't know what to do but to keep making highways wider and wider and wider. We have 10 lane, 12 land highways that take up a huge wide strip of land and is death trap to so many animals.
America is letting the railways fall apart. Our ports are not as efficient as they should be.
I was hoping 3D printing was going to revolutionize how we repair products, being able to 3d print replacement parts. You know how AI is all the rave in 2024 and 2025? In 2011 and 2012 all the rave was about 3D printing. The stocks all skyrocketed. It was all the rave in the media just like AI is now. Then it goes no where and they move to the next stock market sector to rally and sell you on bullshit.