It's in everything now. It became like a museum exhibit to me seeing the most wild things. Wifi toaster WHYY? Like I knew about smart fridges but I was seeing like overly technical smart phone connectable kettles and like some griddle made for just bacon?? Whyyy
I'm just gonna start buying every single "dumb" appliance I see at goodwill thrifting from now on. I'll make a little collection and gift some to friends who want out of the techno hellscape too. I keep thinking about the absurd amount of lights and screens on things that have no reason to have one and how fast they'll likely break. All that shit will be in landfill in like 10 years max
In high school around the turn of the millennium (:chomsky-yes-honey:) I lost marks on a paper where I stated that a need to move to IPv6 was due to address space exhaustion, and that in the future even toasters would have IP addresses. I was told I was wrong and toasters would never have IP addresses.
The future may be awful, but I can rest easy knowing that I was indeed right :gaddafi-happy:
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Trough Jihad.
Are you a worm emperor by any chance?
Oh I definitely lack any real forecasting powers! I think it was from a general assumption that more and more things were gonna get connected to the net at some point, and watching too much Red Dwarf as a kid.
I did a speech in speech class on Net Neutrality like 10 years ago or something and nobody understood what i was talking about and it feels like only a small percent of people more now know what that stuff is even about lmao. reddit did go hard on it though for awhile which was good i guess. but the whole thing has always felt like such a lurking monster that is gonna fuck us hard before most people realize what's happening. dems are essentially back seating it being any sort of priority and a senate vote for a new FCC chairperson. It's been over a year that the vote has been in senate limbo. If nothing is actually done things are just gonna slowly get worse for everyone