I'd be interested in having the (cooled down) hot water lines in my house purged when I walk into the bathroom in the morning, or the kitchen preparing and cooking my dinner to be ready when my car tells it I'll be home. For that matter, I'd be interested in reading a book all the way home while my car navigated, accident free, through smoothly flowing optimized traffic. Waving at my computer to make 3-D spatial adjustments instead of using a planar pointer just sounds like a good idea.

Obligatory.

I used to be a scientist, but then I got hit by a quantum fruit fly arrow... ?

This was decided way back at the final interference testing. This is merely formalizing the failure of the business.

It may not be possible, but exposure to bright light in the morning can help a lot - it's best if it's sunlight or at least a fair solar spectrum approximation. The older you are the brighter the light needs to be (due to decrease of eye transmission with age).

And here I thought it was staying up late (and eating snacks) while doing things online with friends in a different time zone.

You mean like a paper screen, or a wind screen, smoke screen, genetic screen, mechanical screen, or naval screen?

Leaving intentional clicks to unknown locations aside, it hasn't been that long since it's been reasonably easy to be free of those endless rapidly spawning popups or the pop-up viruses installed by a drive-by. Without a law like this, how many little-old ladies would we have had to throw in prison under a strict per-decision interpretation for calling in the horrible things on their computer.

Rule 34 by Stross (yes, it's in reference to that Rule 34) has some interesting side content about the speculative future of a maker community. Printers and feedstock are relatively common, but most printers have embedded DRM related to IP purchase of the models.

With the current legal/IP trend it's a reasonable speculation as many companies would (with some justification) fear a consumer who could print physical devices as easily as they illegally download an MP3. So, from that perspective, clearly anyone with a DRM free printer has got to be some sort of criminal (yeah, yeah, there's that whole infringer/criminal thing, whatever).

Not dye-sub for home? They're getting into reasonable consumer priced ranges too (not like they used to bee). I don't know which has better archival color, though, and the original question is framed in context of heirlooms.