Fill the rest of the article assuming this is the readers first day on planet earth. Like, an article about a CPU architecture should start with the early history of mathematics.

I don't know of anyone else changing everything to gold by touch.

He deserves credit fot South Park too if only by osmosis.

I imagine hiring someone to fix or restock them makes a lot more sense if you have 100 machine rather than just one.

It really depends what the goal is. Profit with fiber or fiber with profit?

Here public transport is required to cover all routes. Postal service is the same. Fiber doesn't seem that different?

It would dramatically improve the service.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL12574BA6D8566A03&si=SyeE...

>Having to find consensus is messy and difficult but always wins out in the long run.

It is talked about in the very first video. How votes are bought in the current system. Nothing is rooted in facts.

The (global) discussion should be about fixing the problem. How to find the least terrible system rather than point out all solutions are terrible.

The actual problem with technocracy (if done right) is that the work of experts grows increasingly incomprehensible to average men. Even if things work out perfectly, experts can't properly take risks or make a leap of faith in other people's name. (Not to argue our current democratic model is any good at it)

I had never even realized.

As a bonus I now also see cranks proposing to raise other peoples children in some kind of sweatshop calling it education and schools. As if that was ever the goal.

I won't argue it is close enough to make the cut but it is more technical than some topics that do make the cut.

Mines seem more of a long game effort. If we see more of that the war will keep raging and quality of life will decline globally.

> the ability to communicate with anyone on Earth over any distance instantaneously in audio, video, or text,

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jimbokun

No contact info, intentionally.

>* the ability to order any product made anywhere and have it delivered to our door in a day or two,

You can buy the same things from a thousand stores with 99% asking many times what it costs.

>* the ability to work with anyone across the world on shared tasks and projects, with no need for centralized offices for most knowledge work.

Again, in theory yes. I wish it was all true, and it should be. But it isn't, sadly.

It's like comparing a casual light beer with the 90% moonshine or 45% bathtub gin sold during prohibition.

I wonder what would be a good way to visualize settings the user changed (and changed back) and some way to see the defaults. Perhaps save custom settings? Useful but it adds even more cans of worms.

Say, after I change the minimum font size on my browser, is it still usable for webdesign?

What if I want to configure Audacity for podcasts and for music?

I wondered if one could ask the user when they started using an application but it seems unworkable.

Then had a silly idea to do a slider that moves the ui in time with animations so that you can see buttons fly in and out of sub menus. Slide it a few decades to the left and you are back in windows NT. Not a realistic thing for MS to make but depending on the project it might be cool.

Then had an idea for a tree shaped slider with all the ui branches in it.

For websites I often keep the old designs on the server and append a date to the file name. Never had a reason to expose the user to those but it could be fun. I did lots of crazy experiments that didn't live up to expectation.

Can in stead throw designs in there that appeal to single digit % users. And then they won't be able to find it.

Maybe some day AI can save us.