Yes, the Sonys have great battery life nowadays. In fact I would argue that they offer the best Android phones these days. But for some mysterious reason U.S. operators are effectively blocking them from the market. When was the last time you saw a high-end Sony at a Verizon or AT&T stand?

This explains the whole conspiracy:
https://youtu.be/Qr2bSL5VQgM

Thank you Dr. Strangelove!

Gary Oldman shows how it's done:
https://youtu.be/1Pb1Voc85ac

I think you are wrong about this. I do think people actually want something like circles from Google+. Google+ failed for other reasons, mainly the fact that everyone is on Facebook and before they get to G+ things will be very quiet there.
 
You need to get past the first hurdle of getting people onto the new social media platform. Then you can improve it.
 
The Facebook lists have failed because it is such a pain to use. Instead people simply don't post stuff other than very banal and general "for-everyone" posts.

This topic and no one mentions Stuart Hameroff or Roger Penrose...

Google it my friends, these guys have a much more fascinating and mathematically rigorous theory than these guys in post seem to have, including a much more convincing definition of what consciousness is.

As a European living in a country with a fairly well working public health system (Sweden), and a tech background, I am amazed that Slashdot and other tech media is behind the curve on this story. Why is NYTimes and other mainstream media the ones running with this and finding the background etc? Damn common sense tech people in the U.S.! Get on top of this to fix it!

General..? General Ripper? :-)