2026-10-20 03:07 UTC
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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-10-20 03:12
What’s that XKCD that goes over the ways that capitalists would be ruthlessly exploiting all those “secrets they don’t want you to know” for incredible profits?
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@istewart@awful.systems 2026-10-20 03:50
who in the hell would want programmable matter anymore, after they’ve seen what happened to plain ol’ computer programming as already practiced
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@schnoopy@awful.systems 2026-10-20 05:16
Piles of screaming grey goo and people being like “Why are you running away? can’t you see it’s my grandmother?”
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@Soyweiser@awful.systems 2026-10-20 08:32
This doesnt apply to everything, like VR and 3d printers were a sci-fi fantasy and now they are mundane economically viable but not revolutionary products. Biohacking and nanomachines otoh dont seem to be viable and you hear nothing about those anymore. Only a little bit in the uncreative (and going on the experts unrealistic) ‘ai will create bioweapons’ critihype. No ‘It will turn people into cyberzombies’ (quake 2 was pretty good (that was aliens not AI but still)).