On what youve said about films and games... Ive been questioning myself on my stance on violent video games... I think they are great but I can auto regulate and differentiate. What is your view on this? I do think that even games should be made (with whatever content) it seems we are lacking games that promote positivity. Everything is so grim and seems to promote weird behaviour more than good.

"This was not a world many people wanted to live in" I think you pinpointed the issue... people dont know (and rarely ever ask themselves) what is the worl they want to live in so basically they consume whatever is thrown at them. Tech is a great example. Another one I recently saw is that young people, even the ones that are pro green fall for the practicity of wine in aluminum cans. Everything that is well marketed seems to be ok. And now marketing have many tools to make it happen, even without ads. Companies do this as well (really cyberpunk and scifi dystopian, btw) of creating confrontation and getting publicity without paying for it (like a mall near my city opened a few years ago saying they would not allow tattooed people in)... do you think that triggered any civil rights move, anyone initiated a legal battle against it? no, it was plain circus (which was used for politics as well)... but people dont see that and Im beginning to think they dont have the intelligence or drive to do it because they are (as we all are) too busy surviving or doing something else. I do think at this point we are headed for global social collapse in the next 5 to 10 years. Too many unresolved issues and too many new things creating issues without guardrails ... and too few people to actually understand it and do something about it or find support in others to do it.

I recall a sketch related to crisis where someone was analysing a report from the news that said "unemployment is going down fast" and the guy said "Of course, people are dying". I think this is tragi-comic as well, all this automation, downsizing and moves to make numbers look good are artificial, people in general are not getting better, unemployment is on the rise, employment means doing the work of 3 or more people. But it seems we are managed by 5 year old rich people that only see the numbers.

I dont think this works anymore... in all those past scenarios retraining or completely changing career was one in a lifetime thing... now it is a continuous thing or it will need to be done several times in ones lifetime which is not achievable. And the fact that this time multiple jobs can be automated and the services and products that require for those jobs are already covered by many diluted small business it means there will be less jobs. Automation is indeed creating new jobs, but far less than before. We are screwed. In the other hand, basic universal income is a patch, not a solution. We have lost purpose.

After Covid businesses knew cuts were going to happen, and now this has coupled with automation, inflation and other issues. Reaching my 50s and having tried both the corporate world and freelancing, I dont see the professional landscape healthy at all. At first I though it was because businesses preffer to hire younger people but now I dont know. It looks shrinking is the way to go to squeeze as much profit as possible (business as usual) but the underlying factors are making this a mess were salaries and opportunities are stagnant and we are only listening to the loud success cases. At some point I believed that it was people not willing to learn and jump into the automation train but now it seems the train is at 1000 mph and retraining and relearning is too much for the rate at which this is shifting (or shrinking).

Probably new to the US viewers but in Latinamerica and Spain it is common to see bad translations. Not necessary a political thing. Length of phrases, usage of automation, not caring for context or understanding slang are very common. Fun fact: Shrek takes it a bit further but for the best, some dialogs, songs and jokes are completely rewriten more for the mexican audience but work very well for other latam countries as well. For english speakers it is like seen two versions of the same movie.

An announcing it sounds just as incomprehensible too. Dialog is what needs to be repaired. I do understand that no action is bad but this sounds bad and a return to the threats of the cold war era. When it is announced that it is not targeted to civilians... what a joke. They will suffer the consequences just as the US did when the Solarwinds attack happened.

LOL, working for this guy must be a nightmare. Calling people stupid, cognitive deficient and firing them after the first mistake. If the time in London is so critical to you just use your watch or remember the time difference! Humor aside, I wonder why other platforms / services got it right and why Siri didn't. I mean, come on, they have the data. I wonder if privacy and other data influence this too or is simply a coding issue. I wonder.

The problem is languages are old, and complex. C, even C++ are too old, designed decades ago, modified to adapt, but old. Even PHP, Python with its simplicity are behind of today's needs. Today's needs are a mixture of things like PHP and JS frameworks or Java and C++ and mix that with Server Administration, Cloud. In that mix itis the reality that a lot of the work is done by solving the real need (like managing a warehouse and inventory) and the rest is accounting or trying to find logic in ilogical and even stupid management fails. Programming is trying to mimick a problem and then create a solution and improve it... but we are basing everything in stupidity, things that we don't need, like you can create an amazing game concept but you need to adorn it with a good interface because otherwise you lost all the OCD potential customers. Or creating an amazing and organized form than nobody uses because it is boring or lacks JS validation because people can't stand a freaking page reload even with a high speed conection. It is a problem. Because simplicity is not part of our lifestyle anymore, we are using old solutions in a world that "evolves" in things we don't really need. That is the result. Not to be confused with real evolve or change, that will always be faster, but at least (maybe) well ordered.

Thanks for the reply. I understand your point though I do not share it. In fact I've found that it is possible to change the behaviour, it is not easy all the times. One way to change it, the simple (maybe) is to actually point out the issues, like spending too much time in tasks that can be automated in different ways without making a lot of changes or even investing too much time or money. Second one is inform people, check their job, see how much time they spend, specially when there are extra hours involved. Do some basic math and show them (and ask them) if their time is worth that amount of money (even in well payed jobs, the relation makes them think). Sometimes people will discard it (r most of the time) but I can asure you the thought / concept will remain with tem, eventually they will change or use or misuse the concept and fail again... that is learning anyway, we all need to make mistakes in order to see we were mistaken. I just wanted to share and see what other ways are to deal with that. There are other ways beyond moving on and acceptance. Though I do recognize that sometimes (when people is very closed in) that is the more efficient way to go. At least for the time.

Maybe we are asking the same question again because answers like yours, while over practical, lack any degree of real solution. Sorry about "intelligent" english is not my native language and there is no edit option, sorry to offend you. Take it easy.

When someone with technical background says "It cannot be changed" it smells corruption. There are times when things cannot be changed because technical constrains (that should fade with time), time, money, etc. Everything can be changed if it is well designed and based on something real. But this is based on money and profit, it can change, and it should be chaged, as soon as possible. This is not a technical problem or limitation, this is stupidity at the service of profit.

That is right. The problem is not computers (tool) the problem is the lack of the educational system to keep things creative enough to get today's children attention.

"Out of the poop"... oh I didn't read that right... or not?

As if buying the congress will be implied or even mentioned. You are also assuming that self harming their businesses is a dumb thing to do as if doing businesses today (mixed with politics) is a sustainable game. It is not. It never was.