Readit NewsA system like solid would absolutely be abused by police. It would be a windfall for data brokers and social scoring systems.
No thank you.
> Classrooms are organized like high-tech college lecture halls — no teacher has their own room. Instead, each teacher has a desk and a computer in a separate and small “collaboration” room.
I'm all for state of the art public and collaborative spaces. But I hope they make room for solitary reflection and individual study. As a student, the hours spent in the library stacks were invaluable. In my career, having a quite place to retreat throughout the day is sometimes the only thing that keeps me sane.
The flourishing town probably grew that way organically, not because of government support or because some company opened a big facility there.
It's true that land is more expensive now, but even if you could buy your own town and settle people on it, organic growth is basically illegal or impossible nowadays.
Even that is only true in a very narrow sense. My great-grand parents built a 600sqft house in a small town and lived their most of their lives. But they built that house right next to their parents. They lived within 5 miles of their combined 9 siblings. They were within half a mile of their church and half mile from the my great-grandfather's union hall. The town was small, but thriving, with multiple department stores downtown. My great-grandmother worked in two of them.
They did not isolate themselves into a dying town with few opportunities far away from their friends and family.
What millinials and zoomers are really struggling with is the hallowing out of the social and economic institutions that supported our collective wealth and well-being. These struggles may manifest as complaints about the individual ability to afford housing, healthcare, education, etc. But there are not individual solutions to these problems. They are structural.
I might spend 100 years customizing my desktop environment. Then another 100 years perfecting some niche internal software used exclusively by a small factory in South Dakota.
My version of spending a couple lifetimes meditating on a mountaintop.
True because we have spent the last 50 years redefining "AI" to mean whatever computers will do tomorrow.
False because we have spent the last 50 years defining programming as whatever programmers do today.