The problem as I see it is that AI is expensive to develop, and the corporations that have deep enough pockets to develop it, mostly use AI to manipulate us to buy things that we don't need, or can't afford, or don't want.

in my organization, because meetings are a part of the culture, and in meetings, the loudest voice dominates. Bullys aren't just in the playground, you know. I much prefer electronic collaboration (the article notes that this works better), it provides a level playing field for the soft, introverted voice.

Taking the long view, books printed 100 years ago will still be here 100 years from now... Where will electronic data be?

The use of electronic media to read/distribute books is the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. These devices are not being promoted for our (the reader's) convenience. They are being pushed as a mechanism for adding DRM to the act of reading. The endgame is: no more public libraries. Pay for everything. And the reading public suffers. Reading is the gateway to an education. With reading materials in the control of corporations, it will become much more difficult to obtain and read a sufficiently wide range of material necessary to become an educated citizen. Dark ages soon to follow. You heard it here first.

I like how now every thing is in a little box, gamecubes, mac minis, the cube lan party rigs. I would be cool to make a lunchbox that looks like that.

Actually, that has already been done.
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/lunchboxpc/