This is laughably wrong and quaint. Keep shoveling that coal fud in the basement sir. You're definitely making a difference to the massive world changes underway.

Still sowing doubt here? The growing electrification of society for domestic duties and now transportstion is undeniable. With ever-cheaper charging and storage, the subsidies for petrol infrastructure are going to shift ever more. Even areospace is making use of battery tech as fuel as the chemistry innovations allow. This doubt about efficacy is so late in the progress its almost laughable. BEVs are just a segment of a huge changeover to charging replacing burning for end-user power. Consumer tools, stovetops, home heating systems, chemistry advances for passive cooling, active reflective components in glass, and inductance charging - are all deploying as fast as possible. The entire cat adoption center is out of the bag. Why even type doubt into the internet at this point?

I conceded nothing. Good luck sowing these useless seeds, the energy industry is moving along nicely without the drama. Renewable Generation, wider Transmission are already in projects for readiness for security, monitoring, climate extremes and increased capacity. Smartgrids with muni-level storage capacity are installed every year in larger numbers. We're headed towards an electricity-based economy, distributed micro grids and a healthy full-arc electro-chemical battery market.

Solar and storage will trending so cheap so quickly, there will understandably be a significant period of confusion. I think you're riding squarely in that sector. By the time you understand what's happened, it may be over.

My goodness the drama is high here. Wind & hydro are indeed able to produce overnight, and longer term solar is building out with onsite stored capacity. This is already in some areas. Cool yer jets

The internet, for you and myself, remember from the early days was mostly built for and by techies. "make me a website" costs exploded due to several things:

• - The number of hits as popularity grew required more complex hosting solutions (CDNs, Cloud Services, Failover, etc)
• - Client-scripting abilities to have continuous socket-like chatter and any type of payloads has required low-latency continuous connections
• - Publishing tools like Wiki's, CMS's, and Blogs have gone into SaaS, PaaS and other things to require ever more complex payloads and bandwidth.
• - Frameworks to commodify the above components into libraries, and then have them distributed at-runtime has required even more processing and bandwidth
• - The add-ons for analytics, user-tracking, reputation systems, ad-systems, age/cookie/locale checking has bloated the payloads even more.
• - The nature of designing websites has fractured into several sub-disciplines that each have expertise and frameworks: CSS, Templates, Markup, Scripting, Caching, Networking. Even just the Visual and Experience design is typically costlier than most people realize.

It's no wonder websites need a planned revenue model to exist beyond relative anonymity: The number of features, and thus bytes, necessary to throw down the wire at the scale to have market impact is much higher than the 90's heyday. I am not lamenting it. But for revenue, I would have expected more sites to move towards a shared-paywall platform by now and essentially reduce blatant advertising. Then we can go back to the debate of "shilling as content" that sits at the heart of most online information-advertising.

There are a million things to lament about the state of the art, but the web grew organically and as such, we have vestigial and deformed pieces everywhere. And yet, somehow, just as in nature, progress is made.

As they die

Aside from sticking your head into an Nvidia card bank, the rendering latency for tracking, focal length and ultimately, disconnecting your balance system from your eyesight - are all going to tax the product into a long development phase. I doubt Meta is able to hit a price point that pays for the R&D, but I applaud them for trying.

The long term effects of headset wearing are only now getting studied, and I doubt it'll be cost free.

Funny, if Meta put this much R&D into real-world interactions and resolving interpersonal and social conflict, I think we'd get a bigger bang for the buck.

This is failure to understand the scope of the issue. Porn was available before the internet, and sex-appeal has been in every media.

The scope now is that kids don't need anything to generate porn. Using CGI models, AI deepfakes using almost anyone's face and voice, and game engines with nearly any setting, humankind's most awkward sexual depictions are easy to create. And we all know that if you take the internet away, kids just FAFO on their own.

Why not just bill by second of stream, unlimited? Share away.... If it came to (say) $0.10 an hour per stream, people would fix the real problem: Sitting in front of a screen for hours

We used to wait for Microsoft software to hit a relatively high version number, just to avoid stability/incompatibility decisions - but one could jump in eventually and they flog even a dead horse for at least a decade. Google seems to kill off projects, even those stable and with substantial user bases, just to keep their efforts on top-revenue generators or low-competition sectors. https://killedbygoogle.com/

What is the upper limit of this "education"? If the speediest vehicle in any lane is slower than another approaching from behind, when does blame switch to the faster machine? By your logic, the speed limit is not the determinant.

...while trying to keep your citizens productive. Authoritarianism without control of information flow is ultimately doomed. China, Iran, Russia, and a bevvy of also-rans invest a significant amount of effort to control the message, and each teeters on the brink of a revolution or remains in 19th century infrastructure.

Tools that have legit purposes but used for criminal acts are not the target of your imagined crackdowns.

Getting the news about fomenting democracy in china isn't the violation; just attempting to get said news is the punishable offense.

I should add: This user profile is recreated several times across the larger players, and governments, law enforcement, schools and parental oversight will be sold their own platforms.