148 15,000 Download Celebration Pt.1

Tonight on CEP! Dr. Mike joins us to celebrate 15,000 downloads, and we slay some articles.

• Shout out to Every1Camp.com, a new camp in Rochester for kids with disabilities.
• We discuss the new horror called "ambient computing" - where gizmos all around your house monitor your every move and then collaborate. Most of it will result in preemptive suggestion attacks, in other words the tech makes assumptions about what you want, and then starts doing things you never told it to do.
• Cars that display video ads on their evil dashboard screens.
• We call it "The False Promise of Technology" - the utopia never happens, but instead we see a decline in the quality of life, chaos, anti-empowerment, control, and helplessness.
• Rumor has it, New Orleans just replaced 911 dispatchers with AI dispatchers, which will result in a plethora of miscommunication.
• "We've already seen how restrictive and insanely incompetent ALL of this technology is. Just wait until it controls more of your life. More helplessness is coming."
• "A third of all actions performed by Alexa, it does proactively." In other words, presumptive auto-attacks, or helicopter parenting.
• Of course, all of this will be subjected to the eternal cat and mouse battle of cybersecurity, and your tech will blow false alarms against you. More fear and uncertainty.
• "DARE to keep kids away from technology." What's the antidote to this dystopia of tech-addicted braindead kids?
• 80s dystopian movies like "Chopping Mall" were prescient: They SAW where this was heading.
• What will save us? Smallternatives and good old human apathy. Let the big guys dry up.

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