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Am I the only one that doesn't really want to live in any version of the future as imagined by Google?
by srswtf123 5y ago
Am I the only one that doesn't really want to live in any version of the future as imagined by Google?
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- squid32 5y agoDefinitely not, all of these ideas horrified me. Why should I even go into the office during a pandemic, it just does not make sense.
- sneak 5y agoOne wonders about the higher level cognitive abilities of someone dedicating much of their waking, productive hours to the service of making the staff and contractors of a giant ad surveillance company more comfortable and efficient. It seems so insanely thoughtless to me. Like, is that really the world you want? Gmail surveillance already took over everyone's email, same for maps and apps and YouTube. Anyone with a clue is trying to roll this worldwide trend backward, not make the Google advertising machine more efficient and effective at ingesting every single last molecule your private data and personal activities.
- dang 5y agoThe article's baity title is not the article. Please let's react to the latter, not the former. It can be helpful to remember that at big media sites, headlines get written by headline specialists. It's their job to sex up the title, and the rest of our job (the rest of us's job?) not to take the bait. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20%22sex%20up%22&sort=byDate&type=story&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... I've replaced the title with a suitably neutral, representative sentence from the article body. There nearly always is one.