Thursday, May 26, 2005

Necessity...

...is the mother of invention, or so I was told when I was an itty-bitty kid. Is it true any more? Or are we at an age when the script has flipped?

Invention is the mother of necessity?

'Stop them before they invent again!' is an excellent critique. I was bowled over with laughter on reading some of the things that are being "invented". "RipeSense, a technology to tell you if a fruit is ripe". Just so happens, our noses are geared to do a similar activity..discern smells.

Read on..

2 comments:

saranyan r said...

that ready-made coffee was bull crap. I can never stand even the instant ones. if it is not fresh, whats the point then?

Nth Dimension said...

Saranyan,

Its not just in that insta-coffee thingie..its just the various "inventions" that are being put forth, when they really add no value, rather, they just serve to make us become Sloth V.2

Ganesh, thanks for stopping by..

Doc..SleepSense, GoodArtSense...wow...lets just replace all our sensory organs with these sensory machines then eh? May be we are evolving toward such a day..egads..I hope that doesnt come to pass...