Well, we already have an appliance centric office. Some are physical, some virtual. Firewalls, security appliances, SANs, Hyperconvergence boxes, those are all appliances. So, you're a bit late on that call.
As far as talking to your computer - ya, that will work just splendid in a cube farm. Or, HR is working on confidential information, like terminations? C-levels working on mergers and acquisitions, ya, that will fly
In the security world, it's not the staff that are the roadblock, it's the cost of your security software. You price it by the "end point", and "licensed user", for every different feature, now throw in "agents" and it is made of unaffordium.
Now I'll blow your timeline out of the water... for something to be massively common place, highly utilized, "the norm", in 5 years, it has to be in production in the wild today. Case and point: Window 10 still has a 45% market share..

Never took a college level math course?

Republicans have been routinely gutting the IRS over the the years. Increasingly complex tax codes significantly benefit the wealthy. Reduced IRS resources result in fewer audits, fewer enforcement staff, and fewer dollars collected. The "Tax Gap" is the difference between what's owed vs what's collected. The tax gap exceeded $600 billion in 2022 - https://www.pgpf.org/article/t...
Eliminating "free" methods for filers of non-complex taxes forces regular payers to purchase or use tax filers. This is just more mandated corporate profit. We're being fleeced by the GOP/MAGA cult.

"Move fast and break things" is just a wonderful approach for things that kill people when it goes sideways.

My brother-in-law just died from lung cancer that metastasized into bones, liver, brain, lymph nodes - pretty much saturated with it. Biopsies showed the cells to be lung cancer. He was 62, a life long heavy smoker, and died horribly. Don't spread bullshit. Cigarette smoking kills people, maybe not 1-to-1, but it does kill people.
This is how corporations lied to Americans, and killed people for profit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's pretty easy to beat this. Just stop buying from Delta. Unless you're ok with being charged more simply because their AI tracks your social media, analyzes your online buying habits and determines your a schmuck who's willing to pay more so they charge YOU more than the next person.

The real money is made pre-IPO by investors. This level of investment is never available to regular traders, but to qualified investment managers and rich friends of owners. The rest of us fight over the dice roll scraps. By the way, Trumps BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL increased the amount of "tax free" money you can pass down future generations from $25M to $35M. Here's how works: If you throw $35M into an investment account, that entire account can be passed to your kids without taxes even if grows to hundreds of millions or billions.

A network is for moving data, as was the internet. As I stated, when the network was hijacked by marketers, useful knowledge went paywalled, knowledge traffic became marketing traffic and it went to shit. I set my company up with a fractional T1 back in the mid 90's. This was pre dot com bomb and pre-myspace by 8 or 9 years.. I ran IT at the corporate office and rather than having to print financials and FedEx them to the regional branches, we setup an version of a private BBS. It saved $10's of thousands annually. You could find pretty much everything back then. If you needed a odd ball NIC driver, often the guy who wrote it would answer questions about it or have it available on an FTP site. Spam was way less, except for that Nigerian King who was always trying to get $10M out of the country. There was a camaraderie, a fellowship with early techies on the 'net and websites didn't have any adds. Unless you used NetZero for an ISP. Their browser was like looking at the internet through a window surrounded by billboards - like most websites today. When corporations realized marking was cheaper in cyberspace over snail mailing advertisements, it all changed. The data and usage, went from knowledge and cooperation to greed.

"The Internet" is not just social media. Back when it was people helping each other, sharing info on how to do things, without multi-media it was pretty cool. When corporate marketing departments grabbed on, things went down hill. Social Media and "data is the new oil" were just the final nails on the coffin.

bullshit. The time to push back was BEFORE you voted for this POS legislation. Complaining after you approved it just proves how weak, pathetic and bought off you are. None of you care one shit about the American people. You're all just corporate shills and/or MAGA't zombicons.

WTF Bozos!?!?!... When you can fucking rent Venice for your wedding to that plastic bimbo, you can fucking pay your workers. How stupid are you Amazombies?

I agree with your assessment of it being an immature product. However, to wipe away swaths of jobs, it only needs to give the impression of improving next quarters profit statements.

That's not at all what it means. 4.1% unemployment rate is the U-3 unemployment. The U-6 unemployment rate is 8.1%. https://www.investopedia.com/t.... The U-3 rate was invented by the Government to make what ever assclown is in office to look better by ignoring those who gave up, have been unemployed too long, and those who work a couple days a week out of their field, but still looking. Either way, the unemployment is not your probability of getting a job in your field out of college. That is called the "placement rate". The Carlson School, which is a really good school, admits their placement rates have dropped from 90%+ to 83% in 2024. I suspect it's even lower for 2025, since those rates are not yet published. If you graduate from a less prestigious school ~ yes, it matters ~ placement rates are lower. Class rank also matters. Usually companies who hire fight over the top 10% and everyone else gets ignored. If you graduate from MiddleofNowhere College with a Business Degree in the bottom 1/2 of your class, you get to sell copiers for some local shit company.

That already happened. You must not be old enough to remember the millions of programmer jobs that were "off shored" to low wage geographical regions. The trend slowed in the mid 2010's when corporations realized the cost of remote project management, cultural challenges in communication, time zone disparity problems and increasing wages in those once low cost areas.

This was test project to learn some of the capabilities of AI, not a retail system. I do not work for an organization that sells any software. I believe the best way to understand something is to actually try it, rather that rely on the opinion of others.