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I think, roughly, having good access to information is a super power (good being a mix of mostly: quick, simple, easy, accurate, free). My personal information is most valuable to me, so having access to that is specially powerful.

The only way to make that happen is to store that information somewhere. The best way to do anything, that I just want the benefits of, is automatically.

And now we are here. It feels monstrous but, to me, the above still stands. How to connect the dots to get to a place that feels good, I do not know. I would not be shocked if it turned out to be mostly about adjusting ourselves to it over time.

But I am almost 100% positive we will all* want this super power, in some much better and much more complete form, in our future lives. And not being able to have it will feel absolutely silly, from there on out forever.

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The tradeoff is security and privacy. Important things. If you click the eye icon next to a password, or paste a secret to an env var you are now exploitable. If you have something you want to keep private or shred this is another place to delete (or forget to do so). So there are plenty of anti-benefits to this superpower.

I understand. Nobody* will care.

People already have traded privacy and a comprehensive personality profile for silly streams of video, photos and text on social media for the past 20 years. Imagine what happens, when you get something immensely useful out of it.

Today, nobody will work with you, if you are unable to manage E-Mail. In the future, nobody will work with you, if you can't properly use the time information dimension that this technology enables. You will simply look demented by comparison.

If that is the case then like anything else let’s make it, well… good. And that includes making it safe, secure and privacy focused.

A good delineation is your work PC will be spied on (assume anyone in the org can see what you are doing, even before this tech).

Opting out of it on personal devices is fine. You wont look like an idiot or be refused work I am sure.

It’s only a superpower if you have full control over the data and no one else has access. If someone else has control and access, it’s THEIR superpower over you.

> How to connect the dots to get to a place that feels good, I do not know

With an eraser, entirely not interested.

I'm willing to make the bet on this FOMO that while people risk this, I'll still be just as employable by living like it's 1999

I provide the value, not what I did before

I prefer personal discipline and memory over this 'super power'.

That is the saddest truth I've read for some time

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