coupland@kbin.socialtoTechnology@kbin.social•What is a technology growing up that when you saw it, it blew your mind?
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1 year agoThis is mine as well, but it wasn’t on PC that impressed me. It was the first time I called Directory Assistance and at no point in the call a human was involved. Until then every demo of voice recognition had been a goofy parlour trick. Voice recognition software was very niche, and only marketed to secretaries for dictation. To suddenly see it in a practical application to completely replace a human interaction blew my mind.
It boggles my mind that I read this sentence near the end of the article:
“Force everyone to interact on one app, and it’s easier to fill their feeds with whatever advertising you want.”
This isn’t a quote from an expert, these are the actual words of the author of the article. “fill their needs… with advertising.”
Nobody has “advertising needs.” It shows how fucked-up the internet has become when a journalist writes something like this unironically, without even attempting to explain themselves. They just assume everyone believes they have advertising needs. Unreal.