It sucks because they could be pocket-sized bicycles for the mind rather than addicting ad-driven bullshit surveillance slot machines that maximize attention. Humanity had a choice and chose poorly.

I'm still on DDR3 :)

Perl is great and I'm sad that Python "won."

sour grapes

Well, sometimes the grapes actually are sour...

I wish I had more control over what the app stores show me. I should be able to block or hide apps on the storefront. Stop showing me TikTok Temu or Shein.

How come Henry Ford could do this but modern companies cannot?

I've only seen Electric Boat do this (defense contractor) and it's likely because the govt pays for it!

Because it takes a lot more education to work at a modern factory than what it took in 1930.

The rest of the world has kept up. Even if you could hypothetically cram 12 years of education into six months of training, the kind of mental effort required to go through that training would be quite impossible for the average person.

But why do that when it’s so much easier to blame AI or immigration, or whatever the new boogeyman of the day is.

"Can't" and "Won't" are two different things.

What countries do you think these bad actors reside? Russia, China, Iran, and NK will wipe their ass with any law enforcement request.

Why would they chase a lower margin business area? Are they out of ideas?

More vertical integration

Like IBM?

Like IBM in the 1960s.

That's my non-expert belief as well. We are trying to brute force an approximation of one aspect of how neurons work at great cost.

Agree. It would be cool to populate my Valheim server with a bunch of agents that are in competition.