Tax Forms!? #Redundancy

Taxes have to be filed. Preparing tax forms itself is a gigantic task. Really!? The same information needs to be entered in multiple forms even when it is linked to one ID (SSN). This is so archaic. Idea case - Since all my income is recorded through my SSN, the relevant taxes are automatically calculated and applied at the end of the year. Every thing that could affect my taxes already needs me to have my SSN linked to it, so those things ( deductions / expenses) are also automatically taken into consideration. No hassles! Filing taxes and all the paper work sounds like Stone age!

Phone can't work in water!

I don't care how many chips, ICs or transistors are inside the phone, and if the circuit breaks when I immerse them into water. They invest so much on stupid things like improving a phone's look, but nobody thinks about a major limitation that you can't swim with your phone, or can't even use it in the shower. Yes, I know you can do that, but it just never WORKS after that! That is soooo DUMB!!

Ideal picture: I take my phone to the shower and can take calls while I'm shampooing. I take it to the pool and dive with my phone in my trunk pockets. I take it to the beach, and sometimes even play catch with it! Isn't that cool?

Phone is a thing!

Why does phone have to be a thing? Why does a phone have to be a separate thing? Why does it have to look exactly like a phone? Why can't it look like a ball? Why can't it look like watch? Why does it even have to be visible?

Ideal picture: I don't have a phone. What is a "phone" anyway?? I just have a ball, which I play with, but I can also use it to make calls, check my email, check Facebook and all that... Phone isn't a thing. It is just a logical concept, a set of functions, which are platform independent, and can be embedded into anything I want. Even my palm!

Cellphones always need a network signal!?

For whatever reason they can't have a good network everywhere! Although that is also a problem, but a different issue. And bad networks in remote areas is also a different issue. But the major chunk of problems seem to be in developed urban areas. New York City for example - people face bad cellular networks even at there homes. And you rarely find a home without Wi-Fi. And by now, you probably know what I'm getting to... Yes Wi-Fi! Use the f***ing bandwidth to switch over to VoIP when the network is bad. And chances are that it might be a better alternative than using the carrier signal.

Ideal Situation: Like my iPhone switches over from 3G to Wi-Fi for Internet connectivity when I'm near a known Wi-Fi hot-spot, in the same way it switches over to act like a Magic Jack, or Google Voice, to use the Internet to keep me connected to the network. So now at my home however bad the cellphone signal is, I can still make/take calls without any problems!

Traffic Lights - Too Dumb!

They have only three colors, out of which two mean the same thing to the motorist. Think about it from the perspective of pedestrians waiting to cross the road, who wait for them to go "Red", and then run for their life while crossing due to the fear of them turning "Green" and the cars running them over. This happens in US, but even in UK where they go "Orange" before going "Green", the pedestrians are at the same risk, because the devils in the car wait to put the "pedal-to-the-floor" as soon as the "Red" goes away! In the US, just to start with, how about making them go Orange before they go Green? And then globally, thinking about one more color which would mean "Stay" for the motorists, and "run-if-you-want-to-stay-alive" for the pedestrians?

Not to mention that even after this change, traffic lights would continue to be dumb, as most (I believe ~99%, but haven't counted) of them continue to be running on a timer, as opposed to smart sensors!

***Thinking about the small pedestrian signals out there...? Come on lets be realistic! Who cares about them? They are "Red" most of the time!