Without action, or even the faintest form of resistance, hope remains nothing more than unrealized potential. The system is built to preserve inequality and control, and AI is merely the latest instrument in its arsenal.Just terriffic!!!

 

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A little made-up story of mine:

In 30 years, we'll be using carrier pigeons again to send private, unmonitored messages. There will be a "Free Sunday" where everyone who wants to participate stays offline. There will be analog vacations where you spend your holidays in a hotel completely offline. A group of hackers will form who make it their life's work to hack and disable everything; they will be the most wanted people on the planet.

After Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and several others died of old age, a new generation took the reins of corporations. They started a war with AI robots against another major country. Then humanity finally had enough and pulled the plug. The power stopped flowing, the AI ceased to function, and thus the new analog age without PCs, smartphones, and AI began.

 

PC Gamer is mainstream media.
If post-2020 hasn't confirmed this for most people yet: Fearmongering and misinformation are what mainstream media exists for.
So when I see an article called claiming that "many consumer manufacturers of electronics will go bankrupt" I can't help but look at it and LMAO a little bit.

Is AI causing a negative impact on consumer electronics? Absolutely. Use your brain though and you will find that it's very unlikely that it will cause the apocalypse people are saying.
People speculate so much on the end of the world it's as if they are subconsciously begging for it to happen.

Moral of the story: People will write all this crap online instead of getting a real job.

 

Right now it does seem like it could be true. Prices for raw materials are going up a lot. So that alone will lead to manufacturers getting in trouble or, in the worst case, going out of business. The prices for metals went up between 10% and 80% since 2024. For copper, it went from $7661/t in the beginning of 2024 to $13000 in January this year. This will not be sustainable for a lot of manufacturers.