Non-IT people don’t find much use in these things either. There’s a brief futurism novelty that wears off. The devices sit unused until they inevitably break or go obsolete. Or they give up using out of frustration. Not because they’re tech illiterate. Because they realize the thing didn’t need to be IOT.

Watching For All Mankind makes me sad. It’s an alternate timeline where humanity focused on space exploration instead of ad tech. They have the internet but it’s a pure utility for communication. There’s no surveillance capitalism, no social media, none of this junk.

We’ve wasted the past 3 decades using science and technology to enrich the American capital class.

I take it those Polymarket accounts still have a perfect record. How many billions have they stolen by now?

I’m pretty sure the “unused RAM is wasted RAM” thing has caused its share of damage from shit developers who took it to mean use memory with reckless abandon.