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AI-driven search, always-on, cloud-focused, centralized, over-engineered for maximum tracking/profiling, decisions left to a single authority... I didn't think

AI-driven search, always-on, cloud-focused, centralized, over-engineered for maximum tracking/profiling, decisions left to a single authority... I didn't think Google could outdo itself but along comes Fuchsia. This is my knee-jerk reaction and I admit I'm looking ahead as Fuchsia evolves further. Trying to see the benefits of this in the long-term but currently failing. Is this another nail in the coffin to conventional desktop OSes as we possibly evolve (or de-evolve) in the decades to come? I sometimes imagine what systems like those in 'Star Trek', '2001 - A Space Odyssey' (HAL) and others might look/feel like. Is Fuschia an attempt to get us there (cynical flipside: albeit with authority figures bent on reestablishing control of a narrative they have lost over the last few years). How much control do we give up and... can we trust the gatekeepers?

maxerickson 9y ago
I watched an episode of Star Trek TNG this morning where they disconnect the microphones in a room so the computer can't hear them. (the one where Barclay gets zapped with the brain light) On Star Trek though the computer runs on free energy and is just a tool. Google has to make money.
- O1111OOO 9y ago
  > On Star Trek though the computer runs on free energy and is just a tool. Google has to make money. Right. As I think ahead, though, the only tools we're essentially getting are from commercial companies. Even our own governments (worldwide) are running these tools from the same commercial sources. I'm not aware of any solutions being built now for the kind of interconnected future (smart homes, smart cars, smart "news", etc) that isn't centralized and also coming from commercial sources (Google, Amazon, etal). The Star Trek/2001 analogy is about an OS system that isn't too dissimilar to our own connected future. Instead of handling a Star Ship, these systems would be running smart homes, managing our lives. That's a lot of profiling in the hands of a few companies (and their "partners") who may not have the best intentions.

maxerickson 9y ago

I watched an episode of Star Trek TNG this morning where they disconnect the microphones in a room so the computer can't hear them. (the one where Barclay gets zapped with the brain light) On Star Trek though the computer runs on free energy and is just a tool. Google has to make money.

O1111OOO 9y ago
> On Star Trek though the computer runs on free energy and is just a tool. Google has to make money. Right. As I think ahead, though, the only tools we're essentially getting are from commercial companies. Even our own governments (worldwide) are running these tools from the same commercial sources. I'm not aware of any solutions being built now for the kind of interconnected future (smart homes, smart cars, smart "news", etc) that isn't centralized and also coming from commercial sources (Google, Amazon, etal). The Star Trek/2001 analogy is about an OS system that isn't too dissimilar to our own connected future. Instead of handling a Star Ship, these systems would be running smart homes, managing our lives. That's a lot of profiling in the hands of a few companies (and their "partners") who may not have the best intentions.