• I’m thinking of it along the lines of Google Glass. Really interesting, and maybe even possible some day, but this type of thing requires iterations of growth I feel. Sign me up for Star Trek communicators (or my preference for B5 Comm-links), but I’m hesitant to get too excited just yet.

  • Ughh more disposable shit that capitalists are trying to peddle on us for a quick profit

    Why do news sites always eat this shit up? The cycle is the same:

    1. Announce a half baked idea but give it a fancy sounding name
    2. Demo something that seems vaguely cool and hype it up enormously, especially in how it is useful for daily life or can replace a daily tool you use 2.5 collect a ton of money from venture capital daddies
    3. Produce a whole bunch of it as cheaply as possible
    4. Hype it up as much as possible so you get a customer base before it comes out
    5. Release it, make $$$
    6. Close up shop within two years because people will realize it’s just a scam, isn’t revolutionary, and won’t do anything useful for them.
    7. Most of the sold devices end up in the ocean within 2 years
  • It’s gonna flop. It’ll be less convenient than a conventional smartphone. Videos? Voice calls? Nope. It can translate your words? So can Google. Given their small-ish company all their AI will also be worse than their competition and it’ll be nothing but a party trick.