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Comment Re:modular but never taken advantage of (Score 2) 62

Even if you never switch modules, the ability to personalize the hardware in your phone is amazing. Even if I never even take a module out, being able to have a phone with 3x battery size than all others, and a much more accurate GPS would be amazing. (I play Ingress a lot)

I believe another rudimentary idea was for a photographer to get a better camera module, and an extra storage module, that way they have a nice camera on them at all times in case they do not have their "real" equipment with them. Again, even if they never switch modules, just being able to have a phone built to fit your use case is astounding to me.

Comment Re:Still sounds like vaporware to me (Score 2) 62

Actually, that has been one of the major roadblocks. Figuring out a strong method of locking the modules in is a great step forward. I could be remembering incorrectly, but I believe they were going to make it so you would run an app on your phone to "unlock" the module(s) so you could remove/replace them, then "lock" them back when you were done.

I am very excited for this technology, just like I was for the original Android G1 on T-Mobile. I am sure it will be a little iffy at times, much like the G1 was, but it will find its place, and become quite a hit, I expect.

Comment Re:Worst: when they use magic (Score 1) 512

Yeah, they may think the same way, but if each one of them went and studied a more specific branch of physics, then that would skew their thought process enough for it to be useful.

Or, say you did this with the best young surgeon, or someone who is really good at driving an ambulance, or flipping burgers. Okay, no wait, I found the bad side of it... This is just getting robots to do our jobs for us. Sure they may be better at them, but if clones have all of our jobs then what do we do for income?

And then you run into overpopulation, where the non-useful population needs to be culled in order to make room for the million new super-useful people.

At that point, the entire population is super-useful. Every IT guy is a "Dave" that can solve problems without even seeing them, every teacher is a "Mrs Smith" because she has the patience of a saint and the knowledge of every subject. The entire world just turns into a self-replicating populous, with no individuality.

Eventually a splinter group of unique individuals will help the super-president realize the ramifications, and he will kill all the super-usefuls, putting us back where we started, that way there will be a point to it all again.

.... I think I just made an SMBC comic.

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