Imagine walking into your living room and your TV automatically telling you the weather and your calendar for the day. If this is a future you can imagine, you’ll be pleased to hear that Google is working on a new mode for Google TV that does just that.
I’d prefer to imagine a world in which a multi-billion dollar corporation isn’t tracking my every step to sell me more shit, and yet here we are…
I remember when tech companies used to do cool things just because it was cool and people were interested in the cool things, and they were making improvements and all sorts of fun stuff.
Now it’s all just done for… idk
Money. This is capitalism. The answer is money.
When was this? 1978?
There was a sweet moment in the mid 00s to early teens where cool stuff was being made to push the envelope. Yeah they wanted to sell you stuff, but they did so under the guise that it would be something to look forward to instead of sucking every penny from your dry husk
Was this during your formative years?
It was during the Great Back When.
The Before Times.