AI in general, IMO it's actually a very useful tool, Had it not been shoved into everything that makes no sense to... if we didn't have an absurd amount of companies trying to make "frontier models" that require carpeting the country in data centers, If we put more focus on... self run AIs where people could train it on their own stuff, in their own environment, without leading into a dependency on outside cloud resources.

US is basically doing the cellular race all over again, except on something so much more stupidly environmentally destructive and expensive.

(IE when the cellular race went on, we had basically 8 or so companies building towers that only were compatible with their own networks... rather than just making the towers public infrastructure and allowing providers to compete with 1 array of towers, instead of everyone making their own).

Connected glasses. I'm all for privacy-respecting HUD that connects to your phone, I think that's cool. But recording others? Connecting it to Meta? Fuck that.

At first I did not mind ads on webpages because it was off to the side or at the top, and that was it. But those motherfuckers had to have more, so they made pop ups, and we all got pop up blockers until it became built into every browser. Then they started animating and autoplaying audio in their ads, and that was too far. So I looked into adblocking just to block the obnoxious bullshit, but it turns out it just blocked everything, which had the added benefit of improved flow of webpages because you didn't have space taken up for ads at the top, sides, and in between content. Never looked back and never will.

Season 8

Automobiles, if they had been allowed by oil barons to be manufactured as EVs the first time around as originally intended.

Quieter, cleaner, cheaper, our first national fuel grids would have been focused on far simpler to innovate and improve electric infrastructures instead of over a century of delay in energy technology innovation by its dependence on ancient and technologically stagnant oil reservoirs.

I wouldn't mind the idea of everything going digital. So long as we actually own the digital copies we buy.

Exactly why Valve/Steam is dominating. You don't technically own it, you're still depending on the good graces of Valve to serve you your game files in the future, but the confidence level is insanely high and they are privately traded so they don't need to make line go up every quarter by cannibalizing their user base.

Crypto. Not the "finance of the future" bullshit but using it as a multi-party center of truth system. Houses should be on a block chain along with the absurd amount of secondary agreements, legislative actions, and other bullshit that's so weirdly spread.

It doesn't need the absurd electricity without proof of work. Shit doesn't go missing, the trail is well made, leans, no one party has control thus incentives don't cause issues. Everything is auditable by the owner.

It should be as exciting to everyone as swapping from MySQL to MariaDB. Just a storage technology

Monarchists.

I'd like to see all of those executed.