It’s an advanced AI. Surely it can do an Israel and remotely detonate the smartphones of the people it doesn’t need anymore.

This one is street legal and flight certified: https://www.pal-v.com. The others are still doing certification. But yeah, it’s not really what people thought the future was going to be. It never is. Retrofuturism exists for a reason.

And the modern replacement for the helicopter is the eVTOL. That one is also often called a flying car, although they’re not street legal. As far as I know nobody died in an eVTOL yet.

but did not last for long it seems

Yeah, turns out it’s easier and cheaper to charter a jet and rent a car at the destination.

https://www.pal-v.com/ is one for example. Certified for road and air. You need a pilot license and a driving license. And it needs a short runway to take off or land. €499,000 excluding tax.

That’s a bit unfair. You can actually buy a flying car today. A few companies recently got their vehicle fully certified and are doing commercial sales. It’s not cheap. If you can’t afford a second Ferrari don’t bother.

The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.

then a 2-season long summer basically, then fall. That’s it.

Like in the tropics, dry season and rain season. Or drought and flooding season of we’re unlucky.

Perhaps a daisy wheel printer is an acceptable middle ground

Almost everything tech bros say is to boost short term share prices. Any resemblance to the truth is coincidental.

Now we just need to use the user information to check their net worth, and if it’s above a certain amount it needs to hover a quest marker above that person. I’m curious to see how long before privacy laws get stronger.

Because people get suspicious when somebody is taking pictures of every stranger they come across, but people looking at passersby while wearing glasses is normal.

Even worse, it’s completely real. It was the common situation for me before corona. Also driving an entire day for a 1 hour meeting.

Another company I had contact with did a few layoffs. Afterwards the recruitment department had a lot more issues finding people. Experienced people would ask a premium because of that company’s reputation in the industry and the experienced people would usually stay a short time and leave. The other option was hiring fresh graduates and put effort in training them.

As long as it looks good on paper, somebody in higher management is getting a bonus for this.

Yeah, the first app for AR should be one that identifies people that are in the list of business persons or celebrities and show their net worth over their head like it’s a reward for a game. Then watch as bespectacled grimy folks start following the rich bastards around and AR is outlawed.

AR replaces all screens, buttons and interfaces with holograms. This can be a hologram with the shiny lines you see in many sci-fi, replacing laptop screens, fiddly little interfaces for gadgets, … These things would also be great for designing stuff, teaching using proper models instead of pictures in a book.

Or it can be indistinguishable from real-life, such as having an empty paper book and have the AR glasses overlaying an e-book, such that it reads, looks, feels and smells like a classic tome. Weather predictions look like a note stuck to your door.

Then you have entertainment. That goes from table top games look like they are on the table, to running around outside casting fireballs and chain lighting.

Or it can be an ad riddled nightmare where everything you look at and your reaction is recorded and shared by corporations.

We need a scapegoat in place when the AI bubble pops, the guy is applying for the job and is a perfect fit.

fatal error: Too many errors emitted, stopping now

Although they are bad long term. Any platform reaching critical mass is invaded by the corporations, fanatics and propaganda campaigns.

Hundred years. Big difference with the 100.000 years of the current waste.