One Of My Pet Peeves / myLot

Canada

November 22, 2015 7:49am CST

One of my pet peeves is the amount of wires that we have in our lives. I have always hated wires all my life but now it is getting to the point of obsession! What do we still have to live with all those wires in the modern century? I wish the house could be totally wireless, will it happen eventually?

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ElizabethWallace

@ElizabethWallace (12069)

• United States

22 Nov 15

If you mean outside wires, we are very much wireless in my community. We put them underground. Sure improves the view and safety. The one inside will disappear when we catch up with the alien society that mocked earthlings for using wires on Star Trek all those years ago.

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pgn

@pgntwo (22405)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

22 Nov 15

I never had you figured for a Trekkie

Actually, we could probably do with letting our reliance on the wheel drop a bit too - moving anything from A to B relies on the wheel, is there no other way? Vacuum tubes were once all the rage, and still are in large shops and hospitals. Not sure if Star Trek transporters are quite the way things will go, but magnetics might be a possibility...

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Marlina

@marlina (154103)

• Canada

22 Nov 15

Instead of diminishing the wires outside, the city here has put more of them. To me, it doesn't make sense.

pgn

@pgntwo (22405)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

22 Nov 15

@ElizabethWallace You are ideally located for such conventions, living in California. And the motto, also very good. I had to explain to someone on here about Vulcans yesterday - what do people watch these days?

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Jabo

@jaboUK (64346)

• United Kingdom

22 Nov 15

I so agree with you - there seem to be miles of the things in my house.

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Marlina

@marlina (154103)

• Canada

22 Nov 15

I think we have a wire highway in the house. I hate it.

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

23 Nov 15

I do find all those cables and cords and wires to be a health hazard. I trip over them. Oh, and yarn. I get up and find my knitting has hooked onto my foot and is coming with me.

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Marlina

@marlina (154103)

• Canada

23 Nov 15

Wires, knitting yarn, all of them can give us a lot of problems.

Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (56258)

• Canada

22 Nov 15

My husband is good at concealing the wires that we do have, and in the past few years we have replaced some devices with wireless ones.

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pgn

@pgntwo (22405)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

22 Nov 15

I read recently about wireless electricity - that will truly end reliance on the lowly copper conductor! I suspect pylons snaking cables across the countryside will be with us for a few decades yet...

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Marlina

@marlina (154103)

• Canada

22 Nov 15

Come fast to us wireless electricity, we need you badly.

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pgn

@pgntwo (22405)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

22 Nov 15

@marlina A talk in 2009 showing wireless power:

A demo of wireless electricity

www.ted.com

Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT's breakthrough version, WiTricity -- a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker.

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MARILYN

@Marilynda1225 (91086)

• United States

22 Nov 15

I have lots of wires around my house too especially for the cable and internet

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Marlina

@marlina (154103)

• Canada

22 Nov 15

Way too many wires in our lives.

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

22 Nov 15

Wires have been gradually reduced over recent years and more and more items are becoming wireless. It will probably be a long while before we reach a fully wire free situation, but it would seem to be a logical conclusion.

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pgn

@pgntwo (22405)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

22 Nov 15

A demo in Oxford in 2009 further up this discussion, interesting...

Bluedoll

@Bluedoll (16770)

• Canada

22 Nov 15

We have plug sockets on the wall but thousands of little ones that feed off it. Wouldn't it be better to have little plug sockets instead? Wireless radiation. Yeah I want that.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502483)

• Italy

22 Nov 15

Do not tell me, everything seems wonderful when you see it on catalogs, when you take things at home you have wires everywhere. They are so ugly.

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Jekca

@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

22 Nov 15

I do prefer this as well. puppy eats wires if he can too, so what we have to have has to be tucked up safely

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Maggs

@maggs224 (2317)

• Alicante, Spain

27 Nov 15

It seems these days that we need more and more electrical outlets because so many things need power.

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Marlina

@marlina (154103)

• Canada

27 Nov 15

Yes, we have more and more and it is annoying.

Boingboing

@boiboing (13147)

• Northampton, England

22 Nov 15

Yes, I can relate to that.

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KnehKnah

@KnehKnah (3582)

• Philippines

29 Nov 15

Wires? As long as there is an electric connection plus those cables for tv, etc., you'll see a lot of those, in the Philippines!

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Marlina

@marlina (154103)

• Canada

29 Nov 15

Wires are very useful but boy, oh boy they are so ugly.

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KnehKnah

@KnehKnah (3582)

• Philippines

29 Nov 15

@marlina Oh yes! Especially in our cities. You'll see a lot of those hanging from post to posts! A very bad sight indeed!

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Marlina

@marlina (154103)

• Canada

29 Nov 15

@KnehKnah The hydro company just installed new very high poles for electric wires outside, they are the ugliest thing you can see!

paigea

@paigea (36143)

• Canada

26 Nov 15

That is also a pet peeve of mine. They invariably cause a problem when I am cleaning and then my husband is mad that I've messed up the wires somehow.

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Marlina

@marlina (154103)

• Canada

26 Nov 15

I understand how you feel, it is such a pain in the neck to clean where there are too many wires around.

Patsie Hatley is Deceased

@Hatley (163772)

• Garden Grove, California

23 Nov 15

hi@marlina mine too my computer has to set on the floor and im in a retrement center so they cannot vacuumn under those wieres whic h does make them scowl but they all have to be t here to kdeep mycomputer and monitor going.

Hope

@1hopefulman (45111)

• Canada

22 Nov 15

But don't wires bring in electricity?

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