my fuel injected chain saw, has a data port,
but luckily, my back woods repair shop showed me the computerless,seasonal re-tune procedure
that only requires a stop watch, works a charm
As to other devices....phones, we need a whole re write of the privacy and publishing laws, to allow each person to regulate themselves. With an ultra basic "standard" set up for the masses who do want
to be entertained, while having buying "oportunites" presented to them. But it has to be consentual, and basics like a phone number, email address, and personal/comercial web space, a non alienable birth right.Ban utopian concepts outright, and get back to bieng the quarlsome and somewhat violent species, that we are.
I am starting to wonder, is the root cause of all of the ancient civilisations, lying in there own dust, what we are doing now, and the vast echoing silence from the stars, the same.
You've left out one important player here: it's not just about the manufacturers and the masses yearning for entertainment, but also about the surveillance industry. Phones in particular, but computers in general, are increasingly important for surveilling the population in novel ways that AI opens up. Giving people root access on their tracking equipment would jeopardize its surveillance functions, because people might elect to give themselves privacy.
AI is never going to give solid consistent evauluation of humans at the idividual level.And AI might very well prove to be able to assist in the extraction of profits, exponentialy faster than wealth can be created, and eat the floors and foundations it sits on.
We long ago passed the threshold of where human masses can be pushed and manipulated into what are then rampaging rioters, by mistake.
Remember the deadly waffleiron and kicks stampedes? where marketers, whipped up demand for a totaly inconsequential item, to where people DID
kill and die trying to get there first.This is the hint about where the limits of human control lie, and just how usefull MORE information will be.
