Linus Torvalds at the 2024 Open Source Summit North America 2024 said about GenAI “Let’s wait 10 years and see where it actually goes before we make all these crazy announcements.”
Similarly, with tech companies the default approach should be skepticism. Let’s start with smartphones. On a recent trip to Seattle I did a three-hour walk on the waterfront near Pike Place Market.
By Daniel Schwen - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.
It is the year 2035 and the new McApple drive-through is doing brisk business at one of the busiest times of the day. A customer in an autonomous Tesla jumps the curb and slightly crashes into the drive-through speakers and hears a voice responding “Welcome to the McApple store. What would you like to order ?”
“Hey, Yo, I will take a new McIPhone with the latest McAppleIntelligence. Also give me a McRib and a McFlurry, and ‘Supersize me’”.