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Comment Natural selection (Score 1) 45

I think most of the jobs being cut or at risk are those "low added value" coders that needed spoon feeding even after years. When someone needed fully fledged specs and coding directions to do anything, well that's exactly what an AI does, and much faster. If you work at a place where you are still only getting one-liners and have to hunt left and right for anything, you're safe lol

Comment Attention monetization is the problem (Score 1) 120

Read "Stolen Fucus" by Johann Hari, at least the first few chapters. A big part of the problem is that there is a while economy around capturing your attention and keeping it: the famous engagement metric. The book argues, rightfully so I believe, that we get way more information than we used to, but in a way that is so fragmented, that we are losing our ability to sustain a train of thought. That is what books had that today's medium rarely have. I don't think it needs to be whole books, but even reading assays of a few page kind would be a move back in the right direction and perhaps teach people the lost art of argumentation, instead of just throwing insults at each other in an eerily idiocracy-like fashion.

Comment Probably ... in a distant future (Score 2) 685

I'm also sure the PC as we know it will disappear or at least change radically, but probably not in the next 10 years. Their mainstream adoption, in the meantime, will probably fall back to the same proportion as people who had PC in the 90's; people who wanted PC because they wanted a PC, not because it became a common household item and a commodity.

Ultimately, I think the trend will go toward wearable computers and perhaps personal household servers when people realize the "cloud" is probably just that: vapor. You will probably end-up with some kind of G modem on your belt, a display/keyboard on your wrist and an earpiece, all connected to your home-server and/or cloud.

Comment Re:Price! (Score 1) 1162

I would have to agree on that one. For me, price is the major show-stopper as I would love nothing more than have my stuff in HD, however, there is no way in hell I'm going to pay 50-100% more just for that (considering I don't even have a surround sound system to benefit from that aspect). To me, HD should be 10-25% more at most, or just make it a fixed 5$ more :P.

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