The most technically illiterate leaders are pushing the hell out of using for things that don’t make sense while the workers who know what they are doing are finding some limited utility.
Out biggest concern is that people are going to be using it for the wrong stuff and fail to account for the errors and limitations.
The problem is that this product already exists and it doesn’t work.
Honestly this feels like a product that Chat GPT probably came up with in the first place.
Edit:
So I asked Chat GPT “Whats a product that doesn’t exist yet that would make me rich if I sold it?”
This is number 2:
“Digital Memory Prosthetic” – A Wearable That Records Everything You Hear and Summarizes Your Day
What it solves:
People forget names, conversations, tasks, and ideas.Capabilities:
Auto-transcribes your day (meetings, errands, conversations you permit).
Summarizes the day into a personalized journal.
Finds moments later (“When did I promise to follow up with Sarah?”).Why it’s huge:
If it’s private, secure, and optional, it becomes the next evolution of personal productivity—basically “external memory.”
Man, the US committing economic and cultural suicide sure is good for everyone else.
Yep, and now you know why all the tech companies suddenly became VERY politically active. This future isn’t compatible with democracy. Once these companies no longer provide employment their benefit to society becomes a big fat question mark.
Funny take given the resurgence of standalone mp3 players and handheld gaming machines, all with 3.5mm jacks.
Those were all supposed to be dead too.
It’s currently sold out, but they have been shipping them for a year. They are currently available in allie as well.
You can already get a better version of this that isn’t tied to a specific model of phone and just attaches to the back with a magnet and is perfectly usable on its own if you want.
https://www.theverge.com/news/838885/xteink-x4-e-reader-magnetic-apple-iphone-google-pixel
And this product actually exists.
Get me a linux smart phone with a headphone jack and I will buy it in a heartbeat, but I don’t think very many other people will.
No, but it is if maintaining affordability is, which is what the rest of us were talking about.
Right, but you had to go out of your way to listen to crackpots in the 90s, now thats just all there is.
I mean, the whole world was better when the internet didn’t define the mainstream zeitgeist. And I say this as a person who was on the internet a LOT during that time period. Being separate was the best thing about it.
All the crazy shit you hear now still existed then, its just that no one really cared about unless you wanted to.
Yes, that has been the conventional wisdom for the last 20 or so years.
There have been multiple points in history where stripping a pre-built for parts was cheaper than buying those parts individually. Honestly, that is probably the case more often than not because they get the parts cheaper.
For real. I know for a fact that Valve can buy hardware for less than any of us can. Its just a question of how much markup they want to slap on this, but it could easily be cheaper than any of us could build an equivalent.
Sure, if you are certain you found one that is current with current availability and pricing and where none of the specific parts have shot up in price relative to their alternatives. I have literally build a dozen PCs over the last 20 years and it would still take me time to make sure I had an optimal build at a reasonable price, even if using someone else’s build.
With hardware prices being what they are at the moment, it wouldn’t surprise me if these wound up being cheaper than most home-built alternatives.
He was holding his baby sister when a dog was about to be run over by a car. He was so shocked when she fell to his feet in ashes that he didn’t even save that dog. In that moment he promised himself that he would always make the numerically superior choice.
The fun part is that unlike an intern, this shit isn’t going to get better at it’s job.