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What struck me reading this is that everyone seems focused on who gets to own the next computing platform: Apple, AI companies, the cloud, agents, whatever comes next.

I wonder if the bigger question is what happens to us.

Convenience is great, but if we optimize away every moment of reflection, tradeoff, and decision-making, we risk becoming passengers in our own lives. The goal shouldn’t be to hand over our judgment to increasingly capable systems. It should be to use those systems to help us think more clearly and act more intentionally.

The future I want isn’t one where AI lives my life for me. It’s one where it helps me live it better.

This is absolutely brilliant! Well done.

Yeah. Strikingly similar.

I ran into this problem too. I sold it by hitting the return key on the keyboard.

Finally, a news app for me, bravo! Minor nit: please place the date, time, and byline at the tip of articles — useful for sharing.

Now, if we could undo the use of “usage”

(Trying hard not to mention “functionality”, too. Ooops.) :-)

What if the universe was much older?

TTY-33 dial-up at 110 baud

I’m interested in knowing more about your implementation.

I played this game on MECC in 1974.

Heh. I came here to say this.

… this can’t be sustainable.

Cue the film _Idiocracy_

He also repeatedly states the events of 1997 happened 35 years ago. Heh.

That's a good idea. Of course, sharing your screen at all would be optional in the "Let's have some company while we're working on stuff" friendly circle of folks.

Right. But instead of one presenter with viewers its many to many.

The timing of this post is amazing me. Just an hour ago I was doing an internet search for how to host or participate in screen sharing while working on pet hobby projects. My thinking was “coding a side project on your own can get lonesome and stall. Wouldn’t it be neat to hangout with devs while coding, even if not speaking that much. Can share screens, be supportive.”

There’s mention of “stages” of navigators in one (or more?) of the books. Stage 3, as I recall are the advanced form in the tank.

Assigning the moniker “hero” to people responsible for developing nuclear annihilation?

Nailed it! Well said.

Heh, this feature:

• Smells like fresh coffee

Most loved? Seriously?

Thank you for posting it. The story has brought to me a number of ideas for me to reflect on.

Or maybe Frank Herbert’s Dune was?

It’s “yee-ro” (Ask anyone of Greek heritage)

While we’re on the subject of boring color trends, I’d be curious to see a similar graph for US house paint colors. It seems to have become dominated by variations of gray

Even McDonald’s, a once vibrantly colored place has turned gray.

That’s exactly how I learned to code. Retyping code from Byte magazine, Dr. Dobbs, and Apple Incider.

I'll settle for becoming "non-interventionist" -- we need to stop being the world's police. Show me where in the Constitution that is. If you can, I'll happily go silent.

Images of Gomez Addams come to mind....

It's a shame F_r_k's reply here got flagged. It's actually quite insightful.

Are we not a Republic? And the Electoral College was put specifically into place so as to avoid devolving us into a Democracy?