80s: rise of personal computing
90s: the Internet changes everything
00s: the Web 2.0 revolution
10s: the age of the smartphone
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20s: anthropomorphized matrix multiplications
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20s: the death of personal computing
@thomasfuchs If we look at the LG and Flock things, I guess in hindsight it will be the decade of widespread surveilance capitalism, and the active use of that data for economic and political control.
Magic 8^14 ball is just in service to that.
@thomasfuchs
You know the thing about COVID19 causing rapid drops in cognitive ability people were talking about a few years back? I wonder if that's related to the AI boom?
@dheadshot well it certainly doesn’t help with it
fwiw, funny coincidence, spanish flu and rise of fascism a few years later
@thomasfuchs aka "the problem with personal computers is that people use them to do whatever they want, we need to get back to the mainframe days when *we* were in control and no-one owned anything"
@thomasfuchs I always knew that DGEMM disliked me
@thomasfuchs or just matrix multiplications in general. Remember crypto? They tried to directly make money with GPUs before they went on to make chatbots with them.
@HunterZ yeah matrix multiplications have lots of scammy applications
I see a scene from Network of certain electronics falling victims of gravity playing a part here somehow.
@thomasfuchs
Noting down "anthropormized" in my mental dictionary 😅
@gurkenlabs that's how you know a human wrote the shitpost :D
Can’t wait to see 2030.
