At what point did a REMOTE CONTROLLED airplane or helicopter become a DRONE?

At what point did USED vehicles become PRE-OWNED vehicles?

At what point did something shown LIVE become something shown in REAL TIME?

At what point did humans PROGRAMMING technology to act and react become ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?


Sometimes I wonder if this civilization is actually running out of ideas and has resorted to recycling the same technology and just relabeling it to fool the masses.

Renaming stuff has been around for a long time.

I remember when trash truck men became sanitation specialists & janitors were reclassified as custodians.

Most people probably don't remember that PC actually stands for Personal Computer.

Telephones have gone from wire & hand-held speaker/mic to a fully integrated computer one carries around as a cellphone (cellular device).

Politics & technology often change how we see & name & do things.

It's been ongoing since automobiles became cars.😎

3 hours ago, ProfD said:

I remember when trash truck men became sanitation specialists & janitors were reclassified as custodians.

Most people probably don't remember that PC actually stands for Personal Computer.

Yeah......

I don't know about the "specialist" part but I do remember sometime in the 90s garbage men became "sanitation workers".

Janitors became custodians and "maintenance workers".

At first I thought it was a stretch to believe most people don't realize PC * stands for "personal computer" but then I realized how old I was and how many young people under 30 probably DID NOT know this.

I used to argue with people who asked me did I have a "Mac" or a "pc".
I used to tell them that a Mac WAS a pc....just a particular brand, lol.

I remember when the ONLY personal computers were IBM and Commodores...lol.

*Or that it could also stand for "politically correct"....lol.