Add in that she’s 68, and... well, writers don’t write forever, much as we may want them to.

Great post!  I remember hearing some bits and pieces about this around 2001.  Glad to see it’s still kinda creeping people out.

That’d be good, but you’ve really got to watch for feature creep. Once you add in the medical monitors, the geiger counter, and everything else it can get a bit bulky...

Thanks for this! It’s refreshing to see good tech reporting on Giz again.

It was the ‘higher-ups’ wanting a taste that in the end blew the deal, I think. Basically they were paying the equivalent of $3 to get $26 back, with considerably more to come (because of other companies and services moving into the area to support Amazon and the people there) - which wasn’t (to my thinking)…

Yeah, but AOC can crow about the $3 billion that Amazon won’t be getting... Never mind N.Y. will be losing out on$25 billion or more in tax revenue.

Oh, a lot. Why do you think he’s pissed? All that lovely money, slipping away, slipping away...

Because YOU, unlike the former Playmate model, have two working brain cells to rub together.

It’d be funny if it’s buried, and in about five to ten years the winds uncover the solar panels, and it starts trying to phone home.

I dunno - go around the assholes and we’ve got a hell of a lot of nice things.

Possibly, but I think the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.  Kind of like the internet.  Sure, shady shit goes on - but it’s made a lot of things one hell of a lot easier.

Making something foolproof, as the saying goes, simply inspires a better breed of fool.  Darwinian selection, so to speak...

We haven’t fully figured out the ramifications of easy communication and travel. Back in the day they were concerned that cars were going to lead to rampant immorality. Magazines? OMG, look at the ads! Lot of them were crazy, but were... acceptable at the time. Radio? Too much listening to popular music would lead…

On this particular chain... um, looks like it?   

We invent very interesting things... then have to figure out how to handle them afterward. Because there’s always ‘That ASSHOLE!’ who’ll take something perfectly straightforward and use it in ways it was never meant to be used.

Yep. No way ANYTHING could go wrong there, eh? (SMH)

That’s a real problem when you’ve got single points of failure like this. One guy with the password... who gets hit by a bus, is in a plane crash, eats some pufferfish sushi that wasn’t adequately trimmed, slips and hits his head in the shower... and goodbye, contents of whatever he’s got locked up on-line.

Of COURSE you do! After all, you want the anti-nuke activists to get their chance in the spotlight, amirite? How can they do that if they don’t know the routes and timing?

‘Possible’ isn’t the same thing as ‘probable’ or even ‘likely’.

Until something better comes along, I’d say yes. (Fusion’s the ‘better’ - it’s the end-game if we want to keep the lights on.)