Poll: Technology has failed us

[Shadowfaze]

We move with the times. You just know theres going to be a high tech as wiping device and soon. *shudders*

 

[countrysteaksauce]

The majority of the bathrooms at my university have automatic devices (toilets, sinks, and dispensers for the soap and paper towels) that sense motion to be activated. Well I always thought that this is really a bad idea and I was damn right.

This morning I kept waving my hand in the first sink and neither the water or soap came out, so I used the one to the right. Then after that I did the same thing for the paper towel dispenser and it didn't work! I had to get toilet paper to dry my hands.

This is quite annoying because it really doesn't take much effort to manually rinse our hands, dispense soap and pull a lever to dispense paper towels, yet it feels like so many places want to seem modern and make everything automatic and only function that way.

And this is obviously not just limited to bathrooms. What if one day the automatic doors at your local grocery store don't open? How can anyone enter? How can anyone inside get out? There might me emergency doors but you can't fall back on those to let customers enter the store.

If you ask me, I think that institutions should just stick to manual devices, and if they really want to use automatic devices that badly, they should install some that allow you to use both methods (manual and automatic) to use that device.

Also if anyone wants to provide another example of failed technology feel free to.

The automated things in the bathroom are made to keep you from having to touch the germ ridden handles and such in the bathrooms and ensure that people actually flush.

Have you ever seen one of those automatic doors malfunction? It's not like they just close and wait until Ali Baba arrives. You can still open/close them by hand.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Automated doors can be operated manually.

I stand to the claim that if it doesn't kill us, it's not a failure.

Wait I thought of a joke! Attach a Motion Sensor Plus to it.

 

[Poofs]

i never had a problem with knobs
i also dont like needing to be a Jedi to flush the toilet

 

[Jedoro]

Anything automatic should have a manual back-up. Problem solved.

 

[secretshadow90]

Half the time the motion sensor paper towel dispenser (heehee, that's fun to type) hates me and won't work. I've never had that issue with toilets, but I prefer to have a manual option. Two of the automatic sinks at my work don't work half the time anyway

 

[Kuchinawa212]

You should have prayed to the great machine spirit to bless the holy devices with the ability to do your will


Works for me =D

 

[Rohammad]

I wish we still had the twist it on twist it off faucets in public places instead of the spring loaded and sensor ones.

 

[skywalkerlion]

I hate Air Driers. They almost never dry my hands and it takes forevvverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.



FOREEVEVVVRVVVRRRRR--k, I'll stop.. Be thankful you don't have an airdrier, lolz.

 

[Lavi]

Worse are automatic flushing toilets that flush while you're on em -.0

 

[DemonicVixen]

Voice recognition is the only technology that has truly failed me, The tech your talking about is kind of a minor inconvenience...

I tried voice activating my computer. Sadly it tries to recognise your voice to log on e.t.c. What a pity i had tonsilitis the time that i programmed it. Now i had to wipe the whole thing because i can't croak.

 

[Mad World]

You have automatic paper towel dispensers? Why not jut use air driers? Though automatics are more for sanitation and cost efficiency rather than ease of use. Fewer people touching a surface = less chance of spreading germs.

Heh. I despise those air-powered devices. In my opinion, they are nothing compared to reliable paper towels.

Anyway, in short: some automatic mechanisms are more unfailing than others.

I really wouldn't say that technology has failed us... not yet, anyway.

 

[grimsprice]

Technology has yet to fail me. Devices are not technology, you know, they are implementations. Technology will have failed us if there is no workable alternative by the time we get to the oil crash.

Actually there are workable alternatives. We're just waiting for the crash to make them profitably marketable.

Oh, there most definitely are, but i include market pressures and green activists into my current definition of workable. As it stands, there is replacement tech in areas that consume oil the most, namely, electric power and propulsion, yet nuclear plants are being shut down, despite being one of the cleanest forms of electricity generation and electric cars are mostly ignored by manufacturers.

Yeah, i agree. Its pretty fucking stupid. Here hoping the fusion plants will be online before the oil crash.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Automatic toilets do not allow for courtesy flushes.

FAIL.