Google IO 2023: WE'LL SHOVE AI DOWN YOUR THROATS AND YOU'LL LOVE IT.

Fuckers even have live chat and comments disabled -.-

Never thought tech-events would get this boring, 5y ago it used to pump me up like nothing else could.

pumped abt a google IO? 🤨

and this sounds more like a Google O not IO :D

@joewilliams007 google WeO

@joewilliams007 google IO would introduce new Android OS + APIs you know, chat bubbles being a OS feature for all apps being capable of using was super fun back in the day
In hindsight it went nowhere, maybe thats why they all gave up on making new features too n everyone's busy with their new toy AI -.-

@azuredivay
There used to be good technical projects and Google tech talk - There was even Android internals Talks!
But most of it is really boring....

5 years ago they weren't the center of the world. Close, but not the center itself.
Trade wars were focused on retail consumer stuff and excluded tech, mining and manufacturing still owned the government and global warming was still mostly due to cars.

Now WW3 is about who gets to manufacture chips, xenophobia is about who gets whose data, global warming is considered a feature of the Blockchain, car companies call themselves "transportation tech companies" and the government cares for nothing but for a dick measuring context with big data, inc.

Seriously, we used to fear nukes would fall from space due to oil scarcity. Now we fear democracy might commit suicide over weaponised gossip.

No wonder the blabber-platform-era weapons manufacturers would keep theirs eyes and ears wide shut against criticism.
I expect google to be the next Apple, the same way Apple was once the next Lockheed Martin, that used to be the next Ford, that was the new East Indies Trading Company...

@JsonBoa I think Apple is going to be the next Apple… whether or not they make their own modem.

@JsonBoa why do you think I rant constantly about breaking prime factorization?

A long shot, but if even one person figures it out, we get to send ALL these motherfuckers straight back to the stone age!

Manhattan fucking burns. It all fucking burns. Money ceases to mean anything. A total reset.

God of the copybook headings baby. In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

I want that. Don't you?

@Wisecrack I always wonder why in those fantasies things like magnetic induced currents stop working.
I mean, the ancient Egyptians had working steam engines and bronze foundries.
Besides, we know about things like penicillin and incandescent lighting and galvanization. Worst case scenario, WW3 brings us back to the 1920s.

Besides, humans are always looking for dissatisfaction.
I wonder, if P=NP, we the software industry are fucked because we would become some idilic past, like "sailing through the oceans" after diesel powered ships.
But humans will move on to new "unattainable", indecidible goals like "having a hot bod" or "having the most followers" (notice how the "on Instagram" part does not exist anymore, since social network nexus are a thing of the past and you can reach each human individually, instantly trough the ether or something hippie like that).
I expect the post-mathpocaliptic world to look way more like "The Jetsons" than "Cloud Atlas" (you know which future).