Posted on 07/25/2025 8:13:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
Bill Gates and his successors had tried repeatedly to get a foothold in the phone/PDA/handheld market, and failed spectacularly despite being early favorites back in the Windows CE era.
There is no reason to take his prognostications seriously now.
bend over
What a splendid idea! why everyone could be tracked by the government all the time. Remember
"If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.'Lavrenty Beria
More likely Big Tech will just con people into getting chips implanted in them. Then Big Tech will share all data with the government, just like they do now.
The “Jab” ——One Step Beyond.
Enough of people like him dictating to the rest of us what’s inevitable.
I want a new technology that:
- Doesn’t tell everyone where I am all the time
- That doesn’t tell everyone what I just bought
- That doesn’t tell everyone where I have just been
- That doesn’t tell everyone how fast I’m driving
- That doesn’t tell everyone the state of my health
- That doesn’t tell everyone how much money I have in the bank
I could go on and on.
How about we develop a technology that is NOT based on shredding my privacy and helping everyone to take my money from me?
Tattoos?
It will be implants connected to the nervous system and/or the brain.
It’s probably at least a generation away, but people will be sending the equivalent to texts and emails without touching a device, and playing games or browsing the internet with their thoughts, and the scariest part is, they will have their own AI “personal assistant” reminding them of everything. At which point, people’s frontal lobes will begin to atrophy.
Not just no but hell no! Imagine the government and big tech being able to monitor and track you every second of every day.
No. No. A thousand times no!
I want to occasionally USE a phone.
I do not want to BE a phone.
There are some circumstances where this would be a great benefit, as when a user has certain disabilities, maybe one arm is missing or paralyzed. But no. I’m not that concerned with being constantly on the grid or constantly subject to being monitored and digitally tattled on to unknown third parties.
What about if a friend needs to ‘borrow your phone’ for just one quick call? Kidnapping or being annoyingly delayed?
Somebody else can take my tattoo appointment.
You get it. Good job.
I’ll pass.
Remember "Logan's Run"?.......................
More spikes
Can 'Carousel' be far behind?....................
Can 'Carousel' be far behind?....................
I’m gonna say I’m waaaayyyy too old to buy into this bullshit.
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