The decision to not include closed ear headphones was clearly deliberate presumably one of a number of principles that Apple adheres ostensibly to reduce isolation of the user in physical space. I am not advancing a personal opinion on the motivation or whether they achieved it, only I cannot imagine it was an oversight. I would say the quality is remarkable for an open design headphone, and I am quite content to use AirPods with it on a plane, as prescribed by Apple.

One could argue that GUIs and smartphones qualified as innovative when Apple introduced them. One can argue the semantics of acquired technology and which inventor in a basement or garage actually conceived the thing⦠I will admit that Apple excels at composing and polishing emerging technologies, but to suggest Apple does not have a pretty credible claim to innovation is pretty dumb whatever you think of them.

I have seen the future of media consumption and it is what Apple touts as immersive video, a novelty which I think is unique to this device right now. I think the device could eventually supplant desktop workstations and displays, at least for creative professionals. I do not necessarily see the iterative path that gets there, or whether it will even be Apple, but it is a reasonable possibility that it will be Apple and that this is the first step.

Have been literally waiting for an excuse to cancel Max. Although they do host good content, the new good content can be consumed in bursts every six months or so. I want my shit in 4k, and Iâ(TM)m not paying for the Ultimate plan every month to sustain. I will happily cancel now and rejoin for a month in a year to catch up on what I have missed.

Right. I benefit from these programs as well. But the premise is morally flawed, if ubiquitous in late stage-capitalism: Those least able to afford it subsidizing the amenities of those most able to. Itâ(TM)s not equitable. I love me a âoefreeâ lay flat bed as much as the next guy, but I can also can afford it and would prefer the system be transparent and equitable.

This. Given that the cost of the Apple headset is at or below the price of a long haul flight in business, Iâ(TM)d shell out 3.5k for the privilege of never having endured the sensory experience of economy again. Possibly the only truly strong use case imo.

Tax preparation fees are effectively an additional tax on citizens, and an aggressively protected indirect form of corporate welfare for HR Block and TurboTax. Each year I pay hundreds of dollars to have a private company calculate a number. Now⦠guess what happens if that number is wrong? The IRS, and shortly thereafter the respective state authorities, will reach out to tell you the correct number. Because they knew it all along.

Yeah. Funny thing is, the bad guys in every other country in the world do not have guns. Some sort of miracle. Living under tyranny is living in fear and under oppression. America is the only country in the world where citizens endure the very rationale fear that their children will be massacred. And the delusion oppressors who insist in the face of common sense, not to mention staggering evidence, that more guns leads to more deaths, and that all we can do about it is think and pray.

No, we are not in Soviet Russia, but are facing the prospect of sharing our plant with a species more intelligent than ourselves for the first time. A prospect considered by many to represent a greater existential threat to human life than say, the advent of nuclear energy or weapons. Worth mentioning then, perhaps, that even nuclear science and technology in the Soviet Union was subject to regulation and oversight of the IAEA, and that today, scrutiny and regulation subjected to the construction of a bridge that will carry thousands vastly exceeds that of a technology predicted as the very likely cause of human extinction on the planet.

In time, and money, burdened on every American citizen and paid as corporate welfare to these needless corporations. Fail to prepare or have your taxes prepared down to the dollar? The government knows precisely what you owe and will come knocking. So whatâ(TM)s the point of toiling for hours and days to establish some number, which, if you get wrong, the government will simply tell you âoeThatâ(TM)s not the correct number. Here is the correct number.â What a load.

The fact that Ai is born without sin is debatable in that it is the human mind both giving rise to and informing the masses of data and patterns that Ai consumes. But the absence of ethical or moral inherent values is usually cited as the biggest risk. If Ai makes decisions absent any inherent sense of morality, a strict adherence to practical and pragmatic solutions makes it extremely dangerous. In short, once Ai is set loose, it could easily view human concerns much in the way humans regard the concerns of ants. When a needs constructing, the presence of the ant hill will in its path will not even be a blip on the register.

Correct. Software development has become increasingly abstract for decades, to the point where modern programming languages look more and more just languages. Apparently that trend will continue, according to this novel futurist.

Technology has delivered increased automation and productivity for decades. Humans still working harder and longer than ever with most indicators suggesting quality of life is on the decline. A few people have become extremely rich, so I guess that is something.

Sounds like the future will need some class of systematically minded human professionals capable of expressing human needs, requirements, idioms, and interactions to computer systems. How novel. Will I still need to tap the pictures containing a motorcycle to post my comments? That is what I would like to know.

Always remember that police and prosecutors are incentivized and primarily motivated to obtain convictions. They are less interested in the truth or actual justice. For this reason, it is never in your interest, whether guilty or innocent, to say anything to them.