This is how democracy dies

At that point technology really is magic. You live in an environment where spirits that you can't understand daily influence you in weird ways and you try to appease them.

&gt; A few months back a handful of bootcamps opened, where parents pay $2,000 for experts to teach their kids how to succeed on YouTube<p>This is just sad. I like some people that are very successful on streaming and video services, but it is an extremely high risk venture. It was the privilege of the pioneers that could basically be themselves. Today the demands of users are propbably completely different.

This is like a big list of complaints about potential negative externalities of technology all put into the bag of &quot;complex thing is bad&quot;.<p>How you even address an article with such wide ranging concerns from &quot;smart fridges will tell me to eat less meat for better insurance rates&quot;(invasive &#x2F; creepy tech) to &quot;driverless car fatalities will have no accountability&quot;(intersection of tech &#x2F; law) to &quot;our inability to disagree with The Computer will lead to a global thermonuclear war&quot; (intersection of tech &#x2F; politics)<p>People will (hopefully) not buy the creepy fridge. At the very least, there&#x27;s no fridge monopoly so there should always be a noncreepy option on the market for you personally. If there is a fridge monopoly, human lawmakers and judges have the power to break up the monopoly.<p>There will be a slew of laws&#x2F;lawsuits about driverless car fatalities when it first becomes a big thing. How that plays out will be entirely determined by humans (lawmakers &#x2F; courtrooms).<p>The idea of having computer simulations so good that it replaces human decision making at the executive level is ridiculously far from being reality, it&#x27;s pointless to worry about it.

IMO a big problem is we want to feel like we live in this high tech world so we collectively invite surveillance technology into our lives because so little interesting innovations are actually happening.<p>A huge bull market in surveillance because if you get rid of that our &quot;innovations&quot; severally lack use cases.