Generation of Poor Technology

Is there something wrong with our technology? Is it lagging in one way or another? And whatever it be. Are there nothing but glitches left and right in all of our technology these days? If you will, list me some of our technology that is solid as in free from glitches. By the way, what kind of computer do you use?...Is there any glitches you've come across while online with it? Even the technology that gets us online has glitches, correct? And I thought this was the future where everything tech would be fine-tuned and working perfectly.

 

We have the knowledge and capability of creating technology that works more efficiently, but unfortunately reliable gadgets aren't profitable.

 

I think it's partly due to programmed obsolescence as Bonobo suggests as well as having ties to the way in which Engineers are trained these days, focusing on specific areas of technology as opposed to the more broad spectrumed style of training in era's gone by in which Students had a better look as to how interrelated different technologies really are in principal sort of denying the modern engineers the insight to make any "truly revolutionary" discoveries via. combined technologies.
But probably mostly due to programmed obsolescence, have to keep profits up for those fucking shareholder parasites right?

 

It's impossible to make glitch-free technology. You simply can't find every single possible problem and fix it, and often fixing one problem causes another.

 

I remember about three or four years back; I went to wallyworld "walmart", to get a flashlight and I found a "shake for energy flashlight" kinetic energy flashlight. The funny thing was it was on sell and they could not find a price for the item.
I ended up getting two of the flashlights for two pennys. They were being discontinued; then I looked up on the shelves and noticed all the tons of batteries that were not on sale and how these companies would go out of business if there were tons of shake for energy flash lights on the shelf.

If you were a child and had tons of toys all the children in the neighborhood wanted to play with; and you charged the children to play with them for a long long time. When new toys came around you would not want the people "oops I mean children" to stop playing with your toys. You would give all kinds of incentives to keep the children playing with your toys. Or you might get angry and hit the new toy maker.

 

Technology is advancing so rapidly these days, and our high-tech "toys" becoming so complicated, it's damn near impossible for anything to be glitch free. There's no time to perfect any type of techno-gadget, because by the time you do, some other company has come out with something "newer and better". It's not that we're technologically deficient, it's the other way around. Our rate of technological advancement is too fast, IMO.

 

Well "newer" perhaps, more bells and whistles and so forth. But not really much better if it's loaded with flaws which were overlooked in the design process just to rush it to market.

With the economy being as bad as it has been these past number of years I'd think the consumer market would be much more appreciative of good's which were reliable.

I dunno, maybe the fed's need to print a few more trillion dollars to pay back China with and further devalue our hard earned savings for that mindset to really catch on??

 

My cell phone does not appear to have any bugs.

 

^^^
Is it still under warranty?
Unfortunately technology breaking down as soon as the warranty expires is one of the truest cliches we have.

 

Our industries today operate under the theory that it is cheaper to put out a product that isn't fully tested, and let their customers test them.

They could spend thousand (or even millions) testing them and refining them til they were perfect, or they can skip that, and let you buy it and test it out for them... 1 million people using it will find problems that would take them years to discover through in house testing.

Besides, they get to start selling it that much sooner, making money faster, and if there is a huge problem with it, get to sell replacements after...

It's this very reason that I never buy brand new technology or upgrade to new software as soon as it comes out... Give it a year, let the newness price drop, and let the people who jump on it do the testing and get most of the bugs worked out. Besides that, after its been out for a year, you can search the internet and see ahead of time what issues you may have, making choosing a product much easier...