Comment on Apple Invents a next-generation AirPods Sensor System that could measure Biosignals and Electrical Activity of a user's Brain

BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As a kid I read all the William Gibson books and dreamed of a future of full sensory web immersion

  Instead we got headphones that beam our interests directly to advertisers

  Imagine getting malware in your brain, because that’s where we’re heading

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  • letraset@piefed.dk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In "Idoru" Gibson even predicted the AI influencers that humans fall in love and develop relationships with.

    We managed to develop all the downsides of his imagined future dystopia, and few or none of the upsides.

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    • Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To be fair, the upsides were relegated to the ultra wealthy corpos, just as they are IRL

      AND we’ve developed our own dystopian facets on top of that like antimaskers and incel mass murderers

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    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They are picking all the bad stuff from dystopian fiction and rolling it all at once. It’s like tech bros got the Cliff notes of all the scifi stories and turned to the page that explained what the protagonist was fighting against and said “yes, let’s do all that”.

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