Remember when it was considered uncool to sell out?

Now it seems it’s the goal.

The mouse. The GUI. Hypertext. Video conferencing. Collaborative editing. The internet.

One man’s vision. One lab. 1968.

By his own accounting, we’ve only realized 2.5% of his vision.

Douglas Engelbart is the Nikola Tesla of computing. And nobody knows his name.

This one has been in the works for awhile now. 23 minutes worth your time.

https://youtu.be/a2Q9rDDO3hk?si=WjhbNk9Dvnuzz3GT

We had the entire World Wide Web…

And we decided to spend all our time on ad platforms.

And now that’s basically all that’s left.

Why?

Kate and me: *talking about surveillance states*

Alexa: “sorry, I didn’t quite get that”

Us: “shut up, nobody’s talking to you”

Alexa: “ooops! I guess I dropped into the wrong conversation. I’ll retreat back to my digital corner and pretend I didn’t hear anything about surveillance states”

#dafuq
#dystopia

My echo just upgraded.

It has been offering the update after every command. “no.” I turned the upgrade prompt off. It kept pushing.

Finally, Amazon rolled out the update unilaterally and one day I was greeted with an irritating, uncanny valley voice.

Now that a few weeks have passed, I will admit the NLP capabilities are much stronger. That’s been positive.

But I don’t need a “Genuine People Personality”

If I ask for tonight’s low, I don’t need you editorializing the friggin’ weather!