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.

At some point during the late 80s......the ghetto turned into the "hood".....lol.

The names, faces & places change but there is very little that is new under the sun. Same ole sh8t.🤣😎

Reminds me of something an old friend of mine used to say: The game don't change.....only the players do.
....lol.

3 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Reminds me of something an old friend of mine used to say: The game don't change.....only the players do.
....lol.

It's true.

The owners & controllers of global capital using power & technology available to them make decisions & produce outcomes that affect the human population throughout the planet.

For example, despite the dust-up with Iran, there is no reason that Americans should be paying more for gas at the pump when the USA took over oil in Venezuela.

Gas should be dirt cheap in the USA right now but instead, oil companies are allowed to make record profits.😎

7 hours ago, ProfD said:

For example, despite the dust-up with Iran, there is no reason that Americans should be paying more for gass at the pump when the USA took over oil in Venezuela.

Gas should be dirt cheap in the USA right now but instead, oil companies are allowed to make record profits.😎

They're using the conflict with Iran as the CURRENT excuse for why prices are so high.

It's not just the gas....nearly all groceries have gone up too.
If I can get a week's worth of food from the grocery store for under $200 I'm doing good!

The same people at my job who IGNORANTLY said they would vote for Trump for cheaper gas and didn't care about his other policies......are now as quiet as church mice, lol.

It reminds me of that old saying that those who would sacrifice their Liberty for Security will get neither.
These people were so selfish and single-track minded that they didn't care about healthcare, food, foreign policy, or social relations....they only cared about being able to fill up their tank cheaply.

Now they can't even do that.

Well, you include variety of terms some of them change for variety of different reasons out of favor because they were rude or biased.

Used to call people mentally challenged people,”retarded,” call homeless people bums, etc. I think the words we use matter.

There was something like asking if you have a PC Mac is a legitimate question one response apple operating system, and the other runs windows. Sure there are multiple brands running windows, but only one brand running apple operating system. Enter those differences make a difference in how those computers work. It’s like asking if you have an iPhone rather than asking if you handheld device iOS…