Hmm, the Borg internet (or intranet I guess) probably has a lot of entertainment material collected, but then we know that drone emotions are suppressed by implants so you wouldn’t actually be able to enjoy any of it…
“Homes” feels like a stretch… an alcove is worse than one of those sleeping pods in Japan, you don’t even get privacy.
Ummm… basically all of the silicon comes from Taiwan, China or South Korea, so I don’t know what you expect there… the PCB is most likely manufactured in China too, along with the capacitors, resistors, diodes and probably the casing… do you mean final assembly done in Europe, or just repackaged and resold by a company from Europe? I’d bet the solder paste used to mount the components on the PCB comes out of a factory in China too.
Even if the circuit design was done by a company in Europe, the most likely production path is chips from Taiwan and subcomponents from China soldered onto a PCB from a board maker in China by a manufacturer in China, burned with firmware developed by subcontractors from India, South Korea, and Japan, and then packaged in a casing from a plastics manufacturer in China and finally retail packaged and shipped by another facility in China.
Consumer electronics production is a global supply chain. Nobody anywhere is doing the entire thing in-house. No matter who you buy from, the hardware will come from all over, and the firmware/software will have had many hands involved from many outsourced developers from god knows where.
And beyond all that, USB-IF (which develops the USB interface standard) is based in the US, so technically everything USB is US-dependent.
I mean… the method is basically “join us or die”… I don’t think that’s particularly nice…
I don’t think enforced conformity through literal mind control counts as democracy.
Anything breaks, we’ll just replace it.
Including the brain. Especially the brain.
Hey, free healthcare!
Tragedy is comedy + time
And this is why anyone who suggests that machine learning systems can be used to make social decisions of any kind should be laughed out of the room. Even when the system programs itself, its goals are set by people and it is trained on data generated and selected by people.