Everyone having an engine surrounded by two tons of metal has done untold damage to our built environment and social fabric. So this isn't even a joke.
And wasn't Google fun for 15 or so years? They dazzled us with all this cool, free software and early machine learning, making us think they were sending us to technological utopia. 1GB of free email storage! Then 5GB, then Maps and Earth...
Except that it's proprietary and will eventually be un-maintained and stop working. But spreadsheets, in general, fall under the Lindy effect and open source software will continue it for centuries to come.
Except most pollution from modern standard vehicle is tire particulate dust which is worse than ICE vehicles due to increased weight and road friction. Long story short we need more walking, cycling and trains, cars aren't the answer. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/03/car-tyre...
This neglects that Permacultural farming is beneficial for soil and feeds way more people per unit of land, but requires more labour than monoculture trowel and row farming.
There is going to be a flood of these dreamlike "games" in the next few years. This feels likes a bit of a breakthrough in the engineering of these systems.
Because of llm Internet we have today, I already do go out of my way to find books and information that I can audit were written by a human before GPT.
Average cars got bigger and heavier with a higher line of sight since even the 90s, making them exponentially more dangerous for everyone outside them. Cars are the second leading cause of child mortality in the US
I hated growing up in Canadian suburbs, and in most of North America, they are soulless places where kids and youth have not much to do and are forced to rely on parents for going to see friends, family, sports etc. Sure -- tucked away cul-de-sacs and side streets might allow the neighbour kids to play games here or there, but are not conducive places for communities to truly engage as their macro environment which has been generally destroyed for anyone outside a car. If you're lucky enough to live near shops, their usually pedestrian hostile seas of parking-lot asphalt where people fly through to get a specific task done, rather than just exist around other people. Peoples lives turn into monotony of Work->Walmart->Home->Repeat... It's honestly a really vile environment. I understand the desire for a large separated home with a yard where it's quieter, but for the suburbs to actually be functional, municipalities need to re-legalize front-yard shopfronts and more public spaces like plazas, community gardens, gazebos etc.