The ideas have always been there, it’s just a bottle neck on cheap electronics and people figuring out the foundation technology. I can’t think of to many tech advancements that have surprised me; that’s not too say they aren’t impressive, but just about anything we can imagine is possible.

The main thing I don’t expect to see is useful and reliable brain/electronics interfaces. I think biology is too unique for an of the shelf product to be possible, which means it’s too hard to make a profitable product.

“unplugged nation” is certainly one way to describe what happened. The monkey very briefly became part of the electricity grid, is another.

I doubt there would be any auto shops that can reliably deal with software side elements that aren’t the dealership, and the dealership would refuse.

I thought it was a great idea for official statements. Kind of like a new type of RSS feed.

Local transport companies can advertise delays, meteorology organisations can advertise natural disasters, police can post active missing person alerts, etc.

But it seems like it is just vapid narcissists thinking other people give a shit about their random thoughts.

In this case the difference is that you don’t need to be in the same room as the typer

You know there are some naturally carbonated springs. The Earth is not flat after all.

I reckon it’s more like the iPod touch. It’s applying a new idea in an area that is a mismatch for it’s potential. Eventually the best use for the emerging tech will become apparent and the current form will fall away

If copyright was abolished overnight, then the corporations with enough money would control everything. The chance for an individual creator to create and control their unique art would disappear. Works of art and entertainment would forever be controlled by giant corporations.

I use musicbee and MP3/FLAC.

My music collection is to large and keyed to my tastes to throw away, and I don’t want to pay for Spotify.

I am not understanding you. Or perhaps you’re not understanding me.

Firstly, the British royal family photo was not ai generated.

If you can’t find a way to test if something is ai generated, who decides what is or isn’t ai generated?

How do you enforce labelling when there will never be a way to reliably test if something was ai generated?

Basic is not a word that fits the situation.

Is everyone here talking about corded handsets when they say landline?

In my country landline doesn’t exist anymore. Now you need to plug a handset into your modem for VoIP. Landline was the direct copper circuit in the ground. You can’t bring back a technology that has been decommissioned. That’s like saying Gen Z is bringing back the 2G mobile network.

Not only do I do that, I have also created separate desktop icons for each Firefox profile

I think there’s space for this in very specific use cases, none if which will be relevant to the average home or work customer. I’m thinking more like a small number of laboratory scenarios.