Twelve things the world should toss out (WaPo)

[rrneck]

Fine print
America is drowning in fine print. From mortgage applications to television commercials, those tiny letters obscure the terms of a contract and mislead consumers, contends Harvard Law School's Elizabeth Warren. Let's ban them from all...


Internet memes
Instead of having fun on the Internet, we now compete to show our awareness of the latest online craze. Instead of instant nostalgia, argues Onion editor Joe Randazzo, Internet memes give us manufactured zeitgeist...


Computer keyboards
The computer keyboard and mouse have introduced billions of people to the digital experience. But according to technology journalist Kara Swisher, they have now become an antiquated obstacle to a new kind of computing...


Carbon offsets
In theory it sounds great: Set up a market system that offset pollution in one part of the world by limiting it elsewhere. If only it could ever work, laments environmentalist Mike Tidwell...

The rest at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/opinions/outlook/spring-cleaning/index.html

[nickinSTL]

1. so...we're all going to have iPads or the equivalent?

I'm not quite seeing how the touch-screen is going to work for, well, my workplace.

I get it at home. Not a problem. I could sit in a comfy chair holding a pad-type device with a touch-screen. Sure. I just don't quite see how that will translate to the workplace.

I expect that I'll be using a keyboard and either mouse or mouse-pad for some time yet.

It may be that I'm suffering from a lack of imagination here, but I'm just not seeing it.

[rrneck]

2. I thought it was kinda funny

that in the same list they mention how we will be swaddled with greater (oil driven) technological wonders while at the same time carp about the fallacy of carbon offsets and internet memes.

[alfredo]

3. Television

http://vimeo.com/10857606