Nope and nope. "I chicken at least have."

It is a time-honoured tradition amongst writers to put together thinly-veiled pseudo-anecdotal essays. Just try to think of it as slightly less boring than just reading the bare essay itself.

Well... that's one of the perks of the (very slightly pyramid-scheme-like) nature of transhumanism—it's diminishingly difficult to accurately predict what innovations will be practical or broadly appealing, so sometimes it's better to just say "if we throw all of our energy into it, it's sure to be fantastic!" rather than to make specific promises. (Of course, the story does make quite a few specific suggestions, so that's not really what you're talking about, but it seemed pertinent.)

Wait, wait, I know this one! Ah, nothing like innovations in management to remind you that a dystopia is always possible. Anyone who hasn't read Manna, go do it! It is worth it.

It's too bad so much iconic dystopic science fiction was written or cinematized in the 80s (Nineteen Eighty-Four and Bladerunner, to name but two film examples), since it means that all you need to trick people into thinking it's impossible is a bright and cheery computer interface.

Somehow this has stopped being surprising.

I like yours better. Yours has better punctuation.

It used to suck battery on my older phones, but on my last 2 phones (current being Galaxy S4) it doesn't even register most of the time. Bluetooth is integrated into the same chip as wifi, so if you leave wifi on then it shouldn't really use any extra power.

Ah, but: a lot of people liked Windows 95 (or at least OSR2). So the pattern's fixed! Just count them separately.

That doesn't make it any less of an accomplishment, though. For extra fun, try doing it blindfolded!

No they don't. I had Power Mac G5, 3Ghz. I got it as soon as it came out. It was liquid cooled. I never put serious load on this system, I used it as a workstation but rarely was it ever running at 100% CPU usage. One day I noticed it shut off and wouldn't turn back on. Turns out the coolant had leaked out over the logic board, frying it. I had paid $3500 for the setup, it was 2 years old. Did some research and apparently the o-rings in the first few runs were known to be defective, and they silently switched to a different supplier later on because of it. They still refused to fix it unless I paid $1500 for a new logic board (maybe more depending on if more needed replaced). Not only that, the monitor I bought for it had the proprietary Apple connector, so was useless on any non-Apple computer.

I had been a huge Apple fan before this happened, but that was the last time I bought anything Apple.

These are all entirely fair points. I think most of the people who stand against the tar sands tend to be focused on eliminating fossil fuel dependence as much as possible, though, so they would say it's moot. I think.

As the other AC rightly noted, it's a divisive issue. "A lot" doesn't mean everyone!