I think we’ll see multipurpose function buttons under the display, that change function programmatically depending on what the app is doing.

No I wouldn’t say touchscreens are out, I would say augmenting them with physical buttons is about to get popular.

ASCII art is the best art

I’ve tried those but I prefer the traditional long-axis blade style.

When I think back to when I marveled that one of our office’s 8Gb nightly backup tapes fit in my shirt pocket - EIGHT GIGABYTES - in my POCKET!!!…

In the future Gen ┐ will whine to their parents that their cerebral implant is only 100 terabytes.

But there’s so much room for ACTIVITIES!!!

4.3 ??? Hell, I haven’t updated my peeler since 2.1 - no wonder my stove won’t even boot.

Yeah that’s the part that isn’t easy.

Yes. I also don’t yell at them to get off my lawn.

• Run a weekly in-person D&D campaign at my house, make dinner for the players.
• Play around with Arduino and ESP32 - home automation, robots and whatever.
• Do a lot of 3d design and printing - make little toys to give away with Halloween candy.
• Build model castles.
• Listen to classic old-time radio shows.
• Help with stage productions at a local theater.
• Write some Discord bots and npm modules.
• Participate in NaNoWriMo

I don’t think so, because if you had infinite monkeys an infinite number of them would get it on the first try.

I’ve read there are so many permutations of a standard deck of 52 playing cards, that in all the times decks have been shuffled through history, there’s almost no chance any given arrangement has ever been repeated. If we could teach monkeys to shuffle cards I wonder how long it would take them to do it.

That could be it - many elements are familiar, although the title isn’t at all, but I have read a lot of Fredrik Pohl. The plot synopsis also doesn’t mention the characters finding out they had been married before. Maybe that’s a small detail that just stands out more in my mind.

Reminds me another story about an idyllic world where almost nobody worked and everything was provided. At one point a crew showed up to repair a house, and everybody gathered around to watch, marveling at their work clothes and tools. One guy yearned to use tools so he started making little craft items at home, and trading them to people for worthless little tiddly wink tokens they used for friendly bets on sports. Then his neighbors started doing the same thing and they got a little economy going, using the tokens as currency, until the government got wind of it and squashed the whole thing because commerce was illegal.

All the comments assume everybody else isn’t also immortal. I forget the title and author but there’s an old sci fi story (or novel?) about a future where everybody lives for centuries, and they’ve found that the brain only retains a certain amount of experience. They have long careers, get tired of doing whatever, re-educate and do something else, or even have multiple families they eventually forget about. A couple of the characters are surprised to find out they used to be married like a century earlier. To me that seems vaguely like reincarnation, and I kind of don’t hate the idea. I really don’t see any downside to that scenario, or even just going on forever.

People are focused on having regrets and negatives that last forever. But buck up li’l camper, you can learn to move on from stuff. And I say this as a dad whose daughter had cancer at age 10 (she survived). It was hell and I wouldn’t want to live through that whole period again, but I don’t consider it a reason not to want to live forever. The trick is to learn how to cope with these things and not let them outweigh the good experiences you have.

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I think the practical result would be the same as any existing upvote/downvote system, because people don’t objectively evaluate content for being well researched or thought out or expressed in good faith, they upvote what they like or agree with and downvote what they don’t. They’re going to do that no matter what you tell them to do.

Correctamundo! Intellectual property law is yet another thing that needs reform. I don’t even like the term “intellectual property”. It’s a modern invention. For thousands of years everybody just repeated what they saw other people do, in a process called “the spread of civilization.” It worked great until inventions like the printing press created opportunities for business people who didn’t create anything to get rich by getting exclusive rights to other people’s ideas. But even then, copyright was always something you held not something you “owned”. The modern IP industry has done a very effective job at converting everybody to think of rights as property and infringement as theft. We need to return to the original concept that creators, who used to be freely imitated, can temporarily have exclusive rights to what they create because the public lets them. There’s nothing evil about this, it’s just a return to sanity.

Dunno how that’s relevant but thanks - LOLOL worth the watch.

FoxOS - coming soon?