knows you’ll give in eventually
No, I bloody will not.
Yeah, I resisted mobile phones until about 1999, and didn’t get a “smartphone” until 2014. I was quite the Luddite.
I still don’t play mobile games. I thought it was going to be a great opportunity but all the games sucked and I didn’t like the interface.
I run hot and cold… I liked the BTD series for a while - it has a good phone interface IMO as well as “easy to multitask” play, unlike something like StarCraft that sucks you in and demands 110% of your attention. However, I haven’t played it in years, I was just tempted to reload it tonight, and I did, and… it just doesn’t do anything for me anymore.
“You’ll eventually give in” Tells you everything you need to know about the power of large tech companies in the US .
We have the money and the power to force this technology in to the mainstream. Tech companies know that Congress is way too old, way too corrupt, and way too slow to really do anything about regulating stuff like this in a reasonable time frame. They have no real barriers and the heads of these companies don’t give a shit about the user as long as they pay their monthly subscription.
A report in Politico details a TED talk in Vancouver last month
Oh so it’s just rambling musings of some self-important CEO rather than any actual declaration of intent.
There are some good TED talks but a lot of them are just hot air.
I feel like the bar is extremely low for TED talks these days. But maybe it has just changed to a financial one instead of an intellectual one.
TED talks have been absolute garbage for years, just corporate shilling and mindless pandering.
Even back in the days when TED talks were good, I remember learning a lot of cool new ideas that they made seem on the verge of tomorrow, that never materialized.
Fuck TED talks.
Even joking about this, should have your dick be shoved in a woodchipper.
It’s not like we don’t know the playbook already.
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement-3664806/
Now you know brain implants will be used as an authentication system, to protect the children, prevent spam, and maybe they’ll manage to add something about terrorism in the justification.
And your employment history, financial status, known associates, voter record, you get the idea.
Another tech headline, another thing that would have sounded pretty cool 20-30 years ago but today sounds like an absolute nightmare to stay FAR away from. And this one more than most!
Can’t wait for adverts for the ass blaster 9000® to be beamed directly into my frontal lobe without my consent.
If they can blast in the ads, the need for physical toys pretty much goes away…
I’d take it
The only way I would ever even consider this is if the firmware was open source and the software to interact with it was open source and it had no direct connection to any sort of network at all and required an external device that I could turn off or on to connect to it an external network. Oh, and the hardware would need to be open source as well.
It will be proprietary and cloud based, when you skip a payment you collapse on the floor until a family member signs up for extended warranty.
Yeah, keep fighting the good fight. Keep demanding transparency, accountability, auditability by ANYONE at ANY TIME in ANY DEPTH. Maybe some day. https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tiltuesday/maybemonday.html
No, I don’t think I will
The choice between the chip and a bullet?
Dont expect everyone to sit idly by for either option.
Just like we all ran out and bought 3D TVs. Right? And Meta smart glasses. Any day now!
The smart glasses are selling really well tho. Creeps and people wanting to record everything I guess
Not if we 1- Forcefully remove 2- Smash to bits every smart glass we see.
I was unironicaly planning to secretly record my workspace to be able to do my job better, by analyzing my mistakes in the video, and ripping off other’s techniques.
Was too poor, director’s grandson beat me to it…
But imagine being able to use shaders to change your perception. Like “I’m going with the Virtual Boy this morning!”
But 3D TV’s were actually good.
I liked it, but tbh, as long as you have to work with shutter glasses or similar stuff it will never reach wide adoption.
it should only take camera tracking and two screens smooshed together. The front one displays blocking lines. Should be able to show proper 3d to several people at once. Their was actually a laptop using this kind of technology in the late aughts.
I don’t trust these ghouls to pour me a glass of water, they won’t get anywhere near my body
We could be granting everyone in the world a high standard of living but instead we’re going to charge them to self-induce early onset neurodegenerative disease.
Yeah, look at NeuraLink and how successful that was at being a thing.
Sorry chooms, I won’t be chippin’ in.
I wouldn’t trust these assholes with a rabid viper let alone my own brain
