...futile as long as there is electricity. I can walk maybe ten minutes from where I'm sitting and disappear to anything electronic. Hell, I barely get a cell signal here at home.

These guys have no concept of the real world. One Carrington Event and we'll see millions of nervous breakdowns. And there will be another Carrington Event at some point.

They might even vote out government officials who shovel tax dollars to those vital, vital AI data centers. They might avoid "smart" appliances and switch back to flip phones and tell this Qualcomm clown and his tech-bro ilk to go and fuck themselves.

I mean, it won't provide the sizzle of these clowns melting down that a Carrington Event would, but it's much easier on the rest of us.

And even telegraphy, though certainly useful, was an expensive novelty.

Today, it would be far simpler to find a single important service that didn't depend on electricity.

...of capitalism's many, many weaknesses.

My daughter and I often comment on the inability to see the big picture. There is so much emphasis on short term profits and CEO payouts.

People love their gadgets and constantly want new ones

They just want us to believe it is.

why we shouldn't fall for it.

You have a proven track record. I follow you (if we have something like that) haha

"And we erase you from existence"

or maybe he twirled his moustache

nailed him. They used the word "creepy" at one point as well.

Turn them off and leave them home. You can have a presence that devices cannot track.

smart glasses and similar devices using facial recognition, so the tech lords will be constantly gathering as much info as possible on everyone, wherever they are and whatever they're doing.

https://www.engadget.com/2184224/meta-developing-ai-pendant-more-smart-glass-models/

And the tech companies will have all that data to sell to advertisers, or the government.

I, for one, will not be assimilated.