Only 28 years, less than 2 generations of 17 years.

Having those giant displays on, AT ALL, while driving is bad. Unless it was only instruments and directly below your eyeline.

Fell for this prediction years and years ago..then they discovered fracking. I'll believe it when the pumps run dry.

I would only do an rclone encrypted volume. And keep separate copies.

I will probably never "adopt smart homes." Good old metal key to unlock my door, ancient Honeywell dial to control the temperature, refrigerator with no screen or wifi, optical peephole in the door, and TOGGLE SWITCHES FOR LIGHTS.

is being born rich.

Larry's going to be busy "correcting" things..

"Eh, so what! Just accept some plastics, it won't kill you...quickly." But I assume beer would cost substantially higher if they did manager to filter PFAS out, so that probably won't happen.

..until RFK Jr cancels the research.

Splenda/sucralose. But I'm not going to waste $39 for 24H access to the article.

And more people will "do nothing" on Amazon..

Which people sure seem to hate.

Instead of trying to run those Windows programs with no Linux equivalent on a Linux box with Wine or something, I instead run whatever specialized BASH scripts I need in a.."window."

If AI had been around and overrode his decision to ditch in the Hudson, they could've fell short of a runway and likely killed everyone on board.

I was at Qwest long ago when a strike was threatened a couple of times and my former outside tech colleague was scaring me with how the company would force us to do their strikers' work, when I was not trained for it and not even sure I could physically do some of it- slinging big heavy ladders around and climbing poles with a belt and spikes (THAT'S a highly risky skill you don't pick up overnight). "PAY THEM!"