Hollywood has produced several decades of movies which insult a not small demographic group part of the potential movie going public.
They have picked a new set of negative stereotypes to repeatedly use.
High speed internet killed traditional "pay per billboard impression" and "pay per active listener" ~2004 and set up the end of most traditional radio, TV, and print media.
Add in that the last generation with a huge steady number of newspaper readers, magazine subscriber, TV watchers, and radio listeners is now 62 to 80 and there is not a lot of engaged persons to sell product to.
The shift is starting, with the past retirement age corporate leaders exiting the workforce allowing the "maintain the status quo and cut costs" corporate strategy to fail on its own.
"App Store Review process that ensures that apps are safe to use "
Some of the most widely used apps....
Link between excessive social media use and psychiatric disorders
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...
The article is the usual PR regurgitated text, and
"Sean Turner, chief technology officer of Swiftly, a retail technology and media platform serving the grocery industry, said that while it makes sense that people are raising questions about dynamic pricing, the real issue is store-level efficiency. "
Restating: "Person X, who works for a company selling the technology, says that the technology will be great for grocery stories and allow his company to make lots of money selling the technology to grocery stores"
At least the article was not: "Dynamic pricing labels are easier for the most vulnerable segments, especially women, children and the elderly to survive."
There are multiple states which require price tags to be displayed near items being sold, particularly in grocery stories.
I am though anticipating a "blue light special" with these tags to happen soon. Never saw one in person, heard about them from older relatives.
Kmart blue light special - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Blue Light Special
The Blue Light Special was a sale promotion within the store for a short period within store hours only. It was advertised using a rotating blue light, in the same style a police car used, and was announced over the store public address system with the phrase "attention, Kmart shoppers", a phrase which became a pop culture reference.[43] The original concept for the Blue Light Special was a limited-time offer to sell slower-moving merchandise.[44] The sale was first introduced in 1965[45] and was retired in 1991.[46]
1) Survey a bunch of people in a technology
2) Write up high cost expert business strategy guidance for and against using the technology (Gartner business consulting)
3) Get the survey widely reported - Spread public awareness that corporations need to get expert business consulting from Gartner
4) Sell lots of expert business consulting (Gartner)
Product placement
In general, for these decades long government funded projects:
- What's the mission?
- What's the benefit to average US citizens?
- What is the 10 year cost to build and run it?
- What is the cost overrun percent by year 5 that the mission is automatically ended?
- List the achievements and benefits to average US citizens for the existing ISS over its 20+ year history. This is things in use today for a large number of average US citizens today and not breakthroughs that are forever 5-10 years away.
The space program does good science, with past invention success, and funding it needs to be balanced with other competing research work such as cancer research, lifespan gap research, and more.
A top-line revenue tax on revenue brought in worldwide with no exemptions, no deductions, no depreciation, no subsidies,
Revenue being sales income, interest received, dividends received, interest rate differential on subsidized loans, government grants, government tax waivers, donated office space, donated facility use,
Preventing the many ways large companies jurisdiction shop to avoid paying taxes is needed.
The top line revenue tax would be paid at the time of sale, interest payment, dividend paid,
It's a classic trial balloon, where the official corporate line is unchanged and one or more persons in leadership 'off the cuff' mention something to gauge the response of the trial balloon.
Windows 10 was released over 10 years ago.
Windows 11 was released 5 years ago.
Microsoft has been releasing a new version of Windows about every 5 years and has not announced Windows 12.
A guess is that the "shift everyone to Azure cloud, OneDrive, Office 365 + add on subscriptions" has run its course both for home users and corporate users.
Adding AI everywhere, with a subscription cost, even in Windows 11 notepad is not getting traction and a large enough mass of paying customers.
Went to our local cable TV providers web site and ran through the basic, premium and get everything channel list.
Taking their basic package, if you don't watch sports, there is very little in the way of TV channels which have watchable content.
I'd expect to see this same trend of a aging out and declining customer count for other long-standing industries.
Surcharging and increasing rates year after year counting on an aging customer base of high income and high net worth customers is not a sustainable long-term way to run a business.
Sports itself may be in for the same declining trend given that two tickets, no food, plus parking is a once or twice a year splurge purchase for average families (NFL, NBA, MLB).
It's interesting how local governments are addicted to the 40 year revenue stream of cable TV franchise fees. Now that major cable TV companies like Comcast losing 10% of its paying customers last year, there is a lot less money for local governments to spend.
We have seen this before with AT&T being the only phone company choice for decades, and a choice of AT&T DSL (phone line internet) or coax (cable TV company) for internet.
Predict: That the most valuable asset of cable TV companies will be the municipal right of way and Comcast will abandon selling cable TV and internet is smaller cities or low usage areas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Cable television franchise fee
"Franchise fees are governed under Section 622 of the Cable Communications Act of 1984.[2] Section 622, states that municipalities are entitled to a maximum of 5% of gross revenues derived from the operation of the cable system"
https://www.webmd.com/pets/cat...
Cats falling from 1 to 2 stories heights have higher injury rates than cats falling from higher distances.
Some day, if we can read cat minds scientists may discover that a short "DAAAAAMMMMMMM" results in more injuries than a much longer "DAAAAAAA (expand 20 times) AAAAAMMMMM!"
Decades of a business model producing moves designed to insult parts of your audience and then saying that is entertainment is not a viable way to keep customers.
It did not help that they added an unhealthy dose if sanitizing movie plots, dialogue, and characters so that they pass the more restrictive film censors in foreign markets.
End result: Movies made with cliches, tropes, cheap exploitation plots and other uninteresting things.
> European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen
If the EU and the tens of millions of Euros it has to spend plus its experts of all stripes couldn't see this, then why should anyone blindly accept any large politician / diplomatic class staffed agency's predictions, models, dire warnings, spending priorities,
"What is the second best proposal?" is the question to ask of these agencies when they present a plan, idea, spending priority, budget or campaign to fight X.
If the agency cannot even articulate how their plan/focus is better than the second best proposal, there is a much lower confidence that their proposal has been evaluated with rigor.
Where's the detail, the budget, the money line items, the risk list, the trade-offs versus alternate proposals?
This can be the result of 50 years of voting for politicians who have as a fundamental campaign platform: "We are not the other guy!" instead of plans with numbers budgets and detail.
The desktop based AI agents niche falls in a firewalled off dedicated compute box or inside of a docker container.
Access outside to the internet, local computer files, APIs, databases would need to be granted on a service by service basis so that the AI has limited access and cannot phone home with internal corporate data.
"Everybody is talking about the weather but nobody does anything about it." -- Mark Twain
