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I remember when I used to be excited by wearable computing that didn’t look awful. I guess I expected it to be my device instead of just physical spyware. Grim
by beervirus 5y ago
I remember when I used to be excited by wearable computing that didn’t look awful. I guess I expected it to be my device instead of just physical spyware.
Grim meathook future, as jwz says.
- xwdv 5y agoPeople even used to be very excited about tiny computers inside their bodies and brains or uploading their consciousness into some kind of network. Very naive.
- Loughla 5y agoThe problem is, until we are post-scarcity or post-money (I don't know what that word is), then the incentives are there to abuse a system of brain/computer interface and uploaded consciousness. That being said, I don't believe we can ever really get to post-scarcity or post-money (again, what's the word?) without those two things being integral. Removing the 'negative' from a person's life and allowing them to exist perpetually is, I believe, required to avoid the current selfish race to the bottom of hoarding resources and capital.
- xwdv 5y agoPost-currency, in all it’s forms. Social currency, karmic currency, hard currency.
- marcosdumay 5y agoWe have a perfectly fine model to allow people to make user-friendly devices and software while allowing them to win a life. It's called selling it for a price. The problem is that while those hyperfounded companies are allowed to dump the same products with and recover the costs by some criminal anti-privacy anti-freedom-of-speech anti-individual-initiative and anti-whatever-else-is-on-my-countries-Constitution ring, the market will be poisoned and nobody will be able to make a honest living on it.