Which again, is because its an explicit violation of social norms. One person doing anything different is always creepy because it's asking all sorts of questions: why are they doing it? why would they be doing it? how dangerous do I think this person is?

If you're filmed by a 1000 cameras a day, you're not going to care because it's the norm. In fact, if they were just a facet of daily life (people have Glass for example) then no one is going to care. And yet, one guy coming up out of the blue, with no social reason to be there, just staring at you, will always be creepy.

What is the point of automatically removing child porn so it's not searchable. That's not the problem with child porn.

The problem with child porn is real children are being really abused to make it.

Making it "not searchable" doesn't stop that. Arresting the people who are making it does.

Yes I'm sure encrypting all your messages in such a way as they can now be proven mathematically to come from the same set of encryption keys (which is what OpenPGP does) will guarantee your anonymity.

People who read history always assume history will repeat itself exactly the same way as they've read about. Its why anyone who studies WW2 will go on forever about how hyperinflation is clearly just around the corner and why Americans seem so ridiculously obsessed with fighting the next civil war.

Linacs are better because they can use singular particles (like electrons) as well, which means for 33% of the power, you can still achieve per-particle collision energies on the same sort of scale as the LHC (i.e. smash 2 electrons, rather then 2 balls of 3 quarks each).

Yeah I did. And it was based on "gee this looks a bit like this".

Shall we discuss the angle of the corners? Shape of the screen? Curvature of the back shell? Which part of the geometric shape was patented and "too close" to Apple's?

So you run Windows (since you mention gaming) but apparently never apply any patches whatsoever for security. I'm sure this is an excellent idea for government PCs too!

Still sounds like too many active systems involved though.

Totally passive reactors seem like the only safe way to do it.

And you clearly never owned a smartphone pre-iPhone.

Hint: the rounded corner button-at-the-bottom design predates the iPhone by a lot. I have an iPaQ and an HTC Win CE phone both of which predate the iPhone by years which had that design.

We might see heuristic blocking of javascript come to the fore. Bitcoin miners at the end of the day have to upload to BTC hash servers, and produce BTC hashes.

Functionally it's identical to blocking ads to prevent.

The Wii was by and large a failure. Nintendo made money on it, but the piles that Microsoft did this generation. The reality here is gaming is staying exactly where it always has - with the interesting side-effect at the moment that the new generation of consoles look like they'll be running mid-level hardware from the get-go, rather then the usual next-gen hardware which PCs then catch up to later.

Linux still desperately needs a solid graphics stack that OEMs will actually target for drivers in a serious way.

And in fact they do do this (and Microsoft Mice have always been my favorite to - I've never gotten along with Logitech ones).

This has been predicted since the 90s and has failed to materialize. It has failed to materialize further in the current generation of gaming consoles, which aren't even ahead in terms of hardware to PCs anymore: the chips and processors powering the new generation are approximately mid-level graphics which can be obtained today. Not in the near future - but now.

While what we consider "the PC" may change, it seems pretty apparent that the future is more platform diversity using off-the-shelf components, not less. So long as people still game with a keyboard and mouse, on a machine they might also use for other things, "the PC" as a gaming platform will exist. And with the current trends, it seems likely that PC market-share is only going to increase.

It is also worth noting that centralized coal-fired power stations ae a good deal more efficient then individual ICEs, and a hell of a lot easier to regulate and keep that way.