Now, I'm not a designer or circuit board engineer, never had anything to do with Adafruit, never heard of flux-ai until a few seconds ago.
Gonna reblog this story in a bit on some social media sites.
Probably gonna include a link to The Way We Were song. To accompying the reading of the article.
In USA, Aedes Aegypti is invasive and new, and it won't be missed. In most places in America, it's been here less than 30 years. Less than 5 years, where I live. I am confident that the ecology of 2026 is plenty compatible with the ecology of 2021.
If some obscure bird species that just moved in 5 years ago can't settle for eating the slower, bigger, less stealthy classical mosquito strains we'll have left, then it can fly back down to Central America where it recently came from.
Politicos+Corpo C-Suite hate 99% of humanity and want them replaced with automatons.
Remember, the point of the game is to be the last man sitting on a pile of 8 Billion+ skulls, finally secure in the knowledge that they have WON!
Waitnig for the AI suicide booths.
Didn't Bender get into an argument with the booth in S1Et?
"Yeah but the lower the headcount, the better my quarterly bonus!"
Every corpo upper-managment drone right now.
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Forgot to add: you won't buy them but rent them, like a cable box.
Most non-computing folks will see them as Alexa-Plus systems that they don't have to worry about updates and other stupid computer geek chores.
Have you checked SC Top 500 lately?
They seem to be positioning these as ubiquious computing devices, i.e. the computing toaster Steve Jobs was questing after, starting way back in the late '70s and early '80s.
These will not be stand alone computing devices but likely tied to a network and corporate control systems.
That the corporation(s) and/or gov't will be monitoring everything done on the system goes without saying.
If anything these will probably be the death of personal computing.
They want to replace PCs with PCDs (Personal Computing Devices) that will have to be tied to the net (i.e. rented like a cable box) to work and monitors everything you do on them.
Oh yeah, they'll let you plot and goon on the boxes, just so they have dirt on you for control down the line.
I wonder how long it'll be before real computers are restricted to only licensed (gov't / corporate approved) individuals? Maybe we make it to 2040 but pessimist me says they'll try to start controlling PCs before 2035.
Each state that gets money in a judgement or settlement, should use that money to make sure their public education system teaches kids how to block ads.
By 2030, I don't think anyone should be able to graduate high school in America, unless they've learned how to be ad-free (on screens under their control; obviously they won't gain superpowers to blank out billboards or the sides of buses).
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I think the last good AI I saw in a movie was Robbie the Robot in Forbidden Planet.
That was equally true for previous generations, and all those generations had exceptions -- kids that were excited about it, despite the other kids not being interested. (I figure the majority of Slashdot may have been such exceptions.)
Do we have reason to suspect the current generation is a unique special case, the one generation where somehow all of them make an effort to never learn about computers?
I bet some of them are like some of us, a 2026 minority that we would have recognized 40 years ago.
What have the democrats ever done for us?
In 1869 the waffle iron was invented for people who had wrinkled waffles.
