Life, 2.0
Out of no where, my brother Omar looks up at us, “What computer power would you like to have in real life?”
“Ctrl+Z,” I say. “I mean, I use it sooo often when I’m computering and I often wish that I could Ctrl+Z in life too.”
“That’s lame. Especially since you will only be able to Ctrl+Z a limited amount of steps, which really means you won’t get any benefit. I’d want to be able to Google everything. Imagine finding anything you want with a click of thought! Lost keys no more!”
“I guess you have a point. What about Ctrl+Alt+Delete? Is that like suicidal?”
What about you, what sort of computer super power would you want to have?
Simon Columbus
March 10, 2008 @ 12:34 am
Well, Omar’s choice is fine. I’d soooo love to google my socks ;-)
Hani Obaid
March 10, 2008 @ 1:08 am
CTRL Z (undo) is about undoing a short-term mistake.
1. The real prize would be Save/Restore so that you can fix the really big mistakes. This is what makes time-travel so alluring. What if I could go back in time and tell Saddam what’s going to happen to the whole region after he invades Kuwait, or tell Arabs to accept the UN partition plan because the deal they will get 50 years later won’t be even half as good, or tell the emperor of Japan what will happen to Hiroshima and Nagasaki if Japan enters the war……
2. Then again, I could copy and paste Palestine, and put all the Arabs in one and the Israelis in another. Of course knowing them they will then fight about who gets the original one!
Isam
March 10, 2008 @ 1:55 am
the ability to be awake for looooooooong periods of time … maybe i can have a “Sleep Saver” where i can be idle for a few moments but become active when there is activity …
aaaaah na3san … :frowns:
m7md
March 10, 2008 @ 1:57 am
ctrl alt delete is for killing the people around you whom you dont like.
gjoe
March 10, 2008 @ 5:21 am
hibernate
playbacks
F5s
Lina
March 10, 2008 @ 7:41 am
LoL :D this is fun. Only one?? I personally could use a Google search, and would love to be awake and functioning for so long… but if I were to choose one… hmmmm… CTRL ALT Delete and then find the program that’s not responding and press END NOW!
Dave
March 10, 2008 @ 8:05 am
Force Quit, or no viruses…although those are both Mac things. I like both the Google idea or the Control/Command Z. Instant Wikipedia capabilities would be nice.
Batoul
March 10, 2008 @ 9:00 am
anti-spam: batata (yaaay!) lol
I want to be able to esc :D
Sari Al-Hiari
March 10, 2008 @ 9:13 am
Does it have to be one power?
I want CTRL Z definintely. But also upgradability. I would also like a firewall I can allow or block people’s voices through. May be also the ability to delete unused files (think quick weight loss).
ANd OH! Networking 24/7. (with the aforementioned firewall)
Ayyob
March 10, 2008 @ 9:24 am
probably ctrl alt del just because there are some people who don’t respond much to normal communication…morons need to be shut down
although the google thing sounds great
ASKAdenia
March 10, 2008 @ 9:48 am
I will select CTRL F to find the right way in my liver, and CTRL ALT DELETE somtimes :D
Ola
March 10, 2008 @ 10:49 am
Print screen. I always imagined how cool it would be to take pictures whenever you blink, a picture with every bat of an eye-lash…
Liza R
March 10, 2008 @ 11:45 am
I’d like everything that people have mentioned so far, plus F1. You never know when a little help might come in handy…
Hal
March 10, 2008 @ 12:59 pm
I’d just be a Photoshop program and CROP. CROP CROP CROP. I’d crop off my butt, crop out annoying people around me, crop everything man. CROP.
Then, if I could have more Photoshop shortcuts embedded, I’d erase zits and pimples and wrinkled and white hairs and stuff. I’d be able to colour my outfits. I’d be able to paint money into my world.
Ok so I’m really shallow, whatever.
super.devoika
March 10, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
force quit all the people and relations I don’t like… =p
Jumana
March 10, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
Brilliant idea…life would be fun.
I would say “delete” but that might be so violent… So, firewall will do for the time being.
I would choose ctrl z “but after it becomes selective” and ctrl n
ctrl c and ctrl v will make my life much easier…
Mohammed Mohanni
March 10, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
What about Safe mode guys…. it’s like the safe calm getaway for us….hmmm that would have been something..
Nour
March 10, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
Google search, Apple Z and Refresh. oh and maybe a power button but that would probably be dangerous, Imagine someone shutting you off by accident
mo
March 10, 2008 @ 7:59 pm
i would print ten copies of myself and make them my slaves …
Wasim
March 11, 2008 @ 12:08 am
I am a software developer, so I can write programs to do what ever I like, so if I had a super computer !!!!
I will be the Architect of of the Matrix
Mark
March 11, 2008 @ 12:32 am
Hmm… does having the power of a computer mean that you get the associated negatives as well?
Will I be walking around with my computer power and then for no apparent reason I will freeze up and not be able to do anything. Will the only way I would be able fix this is start my day over again from the point at which I wake up?
If I walk into a store or a new room, will I sometimes have to wait like half a minute, for everything to fully materialize?
Will I be incessantly chased by seedy characters shouting “VIAGRA, VIAGRA!”
Will there be a group of Nigerian men, who periodically tell me that they need my help to move a vast sum of money into this country?
The trade offs might not be worth it.
Ibrahim
March 11, 2008 @ 7:48 am
ummmm … I think i need only one software to be installed on my brain, something like Adobe aftereffects where i can edit my life stream … delete some scenes add some effects synchronize it with music …
That would be nice … and this reminds of a movie for robin william … I dont remember the name now …
Ibrahim
March 11, 2008 @ 7:50 am
I think I’m under the effect of shira3 project :P
MarkDM
March 11, 2008 @ 9:08 am
When I was learning to use a Mac almost 20 years ago, I went home from work one day and rearranged some furniture. I moved a table or something, then realized I liked it better where I’d had it before.
And for about a quarter-second, I actually thought, “Oh, I’ll just do Cmd-Z and undo it.”
That was weird.
manal y
March 11, 2008 @ 9:20 am
i would like to have the “space bar” and click as much as space i want from anything
love the idea :)
Yacoub
March 23, 2008 @ 12:44 am
I wish I hv the Ctrl Z thing too, may be instant Wikipedia search as well!
And of course the system restore, eh!