Sure. But you’d lose the case.

You don’t have right to privacy in public.

At least in the 80s there was potential for improvement

We don’t talk about the irreconcilable damage inflicted during the earlier industrial era. We don’t talk about what modern fossil fuels and plastics replaced.

Nothing about this is eternal. We are no closer to oblivion today than we were during Operation Plumbbob or the Black Plague.

You won’t live to see the end. You won’t live to see the beginning of the end. You won’t even live to see the end of the beginning.

We’re all living through a single footstep on an endless road.

And heavily controlled, regulated and legislated.

Only took a century or ten

That’s exactly what radar guns do

Right now, the algorithm is more harmful than those because everyone is addicted to them.

Again, I don’t think you’re acknowledging the difference between chemical addiction and social habit.

If you spend a week without cell phone reception, you don’t die from withdrawal symptoms.

You can easily go up to 2010 and later without any antennas besides the radio.

I mean, you’ve still got a license plate. Cops have been tracking those for decades.

People don’t really have a choice.

When you’ve got an eight lane highway between you and your destination, there’s not a lot of alternatives to get where you want to go.

Why is the government over reaching it’s authority.

It isn’t. This is power fully vested in federal agencies by the legislature and endorsed by the courts.

As noted up about, it’s an end run around implementing any kind of public transit, by offloading the external costs of privatized vehicle operation into the consumer.

But you don’t have some kind of inalienable right to a public highway free of state surveillance. That’s never existed.

Nothing in the article describes an actual implementation of this technology.

Like, no make or model with it enabled. No examples of it being tested or deployed in any vehicles ahead of schedule. Just a line item from legislation noting the deadline and a mention that manufacturers are resisting it.

Okay, but booze, nicotine, and crack were also pretty addictive.

Idk if I’d trade The Algorithm epidemic of the 2020s for wood grain alcohol from the 1920s

There’s nothing wrong with the technology

Glances at the legacy fossil fuel infrastructure

Idk about that.

the general f*ckery that is through everything now I miss my 2400 baud modem that was bigger than my computer and dialing in to a BBS.

A lot of the historical nostalgia is based on biased accounts of past eras.

“I wish I lived in the 80s” is a thing you say when you’re not told about the airborne lead fumes or the acid rain. “I wish I lived in the 50s” is said by people who would feel very differently if they were being drafted to the Korean War.

wasn’t it a metaphor

Maybe. I just remember re-reading the book in preparation for the TV Show’s release, and being somewhat set back by how low tech even the more advanced set pieces were in the book compared to the show. It makes more sense when you recognize these books were written in the 1940s, practically before rocketry was a thing. But it’s still a bit of a trip to see what Asimov considered the future would look like.

Hey, sometimes it’s a ramshackle alleyway or the back of someone’s car.

In Foundation, Asimov suggests that spaceships start running on coal power, after civilization collapses so far that people forget how to build nuclear engines. He was always more of a Big Ideas Guy than a Fine Details Guy.

My favorite is how there is only ever one city and like 10,000 people on any planet.

I would spot you that some of this makes sense if the world is largely inhospitable and the one city with the singular mono-culture is the corner that’s human habitable.

Mos Eisley Cantina makes sense if you consider it a tiny space port on a largely inhospitable planet where you literally have to farm moister to survive.

If you ignore the gas giants because there’s no surface to land on

Hey now. You can land on the surface of Jupiter if you’re dense enough.

Oh man, in general, people be raving about aliens, but never give two looks to the ants in their garden.

Idk about that. “Honey, I Shrunk The Kids” did numbers.

Would be very funny if we manage to eliminate Linux OS distributions on the internet before we eliminate CSAM on the internet.

I’m not holding my breath on either.

What an amazing grift.

Under socialism, you will live next to a first generation immigrant from a country full of brown people, you will eat their food, experience their culture, and work side by side in pursuit of a better life.

And you will like it.