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No, they're not that cool in day-to-day beyond a geeky gimmick, that's the point. Maybe it's cool in dated sci-fi, but not everyone subscribes to the idea of ne
by goldfeld 8y ago
No, they're not that cool in day-to-day beyond a geeky gimmick, that's the point. Maybe it's cool in dated sci-fi, but not everyone subscribes to the idea of needing a dumb serf to boss around, much less of looking dumb bossing around a cheap circuit built by a cheaper company as if that's cooler than actually knowing your way around technology and keeping a modicum of control in one's life. Maybe I'm old school, I'll go back to vim now.
- wowzerz 8y agoOkay, so wait a second. Hold it right there. @nerdponx is onto something here. This is really important. You take your fingers, and take your 100+ key keyboard, and you think about how reliable your structured articulation of codified text syntax can be, when storing files on a file system the UNIX way. Take that same philosophy, and make that happen with spoken word, and a language that has ~65,000 words. Phrases over text files, spoken through the air, instead of written down, saved and interpretted. If that were what these speaker/microphone combo systems were about, and they weren’t internet connected, and exclusively piping profitable surveillance data home to some corporate data center to mine for buying habits in aggregate, this would all be very different. Anyway, the future is fucking stupid, and I hate it. I hope JavaScript bitcoin mining eventually sucks so much accidentally wasted computational energy into some quantum computer with an unterminated while loop, that it conjures a black hole and erases us all. Just my two cents.