The dystopia you ordered is almost here
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Soon, you’ll be able to have a chat with an AI-powered chatbot and it will count as a therapy session. Have we not learned anything from sci-fi?! Me, myself and AI: The therapists using AI to make therapy better.
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This is what happens when you don’t read the long-ass user agreement: In 2030, you won't own any gadgets. When you buy a device that requires proprietary software to run, the money you hand over is an entry fee, nothing more.
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For decades, the mafia ran the same shakedown scam on small stores: you pay us so we can protect you from the bad guys, which is us as well. Now, it’s gone online.
The good news: for a price, you can rebuild your online reputation (or at least partially "erase" the bad parts). The bad news is that, in some cases, the people you have to pay own the sites and services that allowed you to be maligned in the first place. This is the dark side of online reputation management: websites can make money by removing the hurtful material they encouraged others to post in the first place.
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Imagine a world in which your neighborhood, as shown to you on an app, resembles an entirely different neighborhood than the one on your street, where storefronts have nothing to do with what’s available for you to eat. “Eventually the word ‘virtual’ is just going to be dropped,” hopes Alex Canter, co-founder of the virtual restaurant platform Nextbite. “It’ll just be restaurants that live online the same way that when you shop online for clothes, you don’t call it a ‘virtual store.’” The draw of a virtual restaurant is that of online shopping: The same products no matter where you are, or sometimes products exclusive to the virtual world. It’s fast food on an even grander scale.
At the Food on Demand conference in Las Vegas, the food service industry laid out its vision for a future in which customers never have to wait.
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I played a lot of Mario games as a kid, is that why I’m always looking for a shortcut to everything?
So if you’ve ever asked yourself “Can I Let One Kid Play Violent Video Games and Not the Other?” then reading this might help. An in-depth dive into the age-old question of parenting differently aged siblings differently.
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Zero Olvidon