To understand why the show was canceled, it’s interesting to take a look at the ratings.

Yeah normally I’d either not care at all, or prefer to see it made in full, but for Westworld in particular, I’d actually be completely fine with, like, a 2,000-word summary of whatever season 5 would have been.

The last season ended in a way that works as a finale at least. They could continue for one more, but it’s not a terrible place to end it.

I think Nolan and Joy have made some incredible stuff but they really struggle with some bad “mystery box” tendencies. Westworld had some very high highs but it certainly padded it out unnecessarily here and there.

I’d be perfectly okay with Nolan & Joy just telling us what the ending they had in mind was, so everyone (the audience, the cast, the crew) can move on to work and watch other things.

Well, shit.
Kotaku gets the mandate from Spanfucker that they must focus purely on game guides which are already abundant across the webs.
Now Gizmodo seems to have gotten the mandate that they focus purely on basic computer how-tos for people who just now discovered computers.
Is Gizmodo going to turn off the Comments…

Sorry you have to write these articles due to the stupid owners.

OK but the difference here, is that not only will this massive companies take your career, they will take the wealth and control that your career afforded you, leaving you with nothing, and having to retrain and reset your career. Which is fine if you’re under the age of 30-35, but sadly the majority of our productive…

Regarding the “they can just be retrained to do something else” line. Even if Apple and the other big tech companies were willing to pay for that training (which they won’t, because it’s not their problem) the lack of available positions to transfer into is an even bigger issue than the training itself.

Any time you…

I’m also not sure why people assume it is somebody else’s responsibility to retrain you if your industry becomes obsolete and industries quietly go obsolete all the time.

I mean, they’re not mutually exclusive. It sucks right now AND is taking away jobs. Not only is it being used to replace human workers, but it can’t even actually do that. It’s dangerous.

“I’m also not sure why people assume it is somebody else’s responsibility to retrain you if your industry becomes obsolete...”

The Battle of Blair Mountain. The largest battle on US soil since the Civil War. 10,000 miners went to war with the coal barons over trying to unionize.

As a physician, I had to constantly learn about new advances or else be very bad at my job and a danger to the people I took care of.

But that’s not a fair comparison, you can apply your training and education to variety of fields as a physician.
If your argument is “deal with it”, ok, cynical, but fine.
But don’t start flaunting your trade like anyone else actually has the the 100 grand school loan debt to spare when they needed to provide for…

The problem here, that I don’t really see even brought up by Jon (at least not mentioned in the article) is that AI actually isn’t even close to being able to do things that corporations and tech bros are trying to implement it in...and may never be able to do it.

I don’t know if they were the first people, but I believe they were the first union that got bombed. The national guard has teamed up with local police to smash unions for as long as workers have been trying to organize. A basic side effect when government is controlled by the wealthy, who also happen to control all…

Since coal mining was brought up, weren’t the first people the US government bombed striking coal miners? I may be misremembering since I was always bad at history. Even so, it goes to show you that even the US government was initially interested to never be on the worker’s side. I’m sure we will see the same rodeo of…

Imagine going to one (1) conference where some dude talks about how to drive traffic to your site, and then unilaterally making the decision to pivot to inane guides. Kotaku was dying, but I didn’t realize the pivot would hit Gizmodo as fast and as potently as it did.

God, again, I know this isn’t the writer’s fault, but this is absurd. Absolutely no one needs an entire article on basic functions of a singular device. Anyone who owns an iPad either already knows how to do this or can just look it up on the bajillion of other sites this already exists on.