The most striking thing is he doesn't need the AI.

Apparently one has to state the bleeding obvious.

Anyone who believes Anonymous was about the public good, I have a bridge to sell you

Fine of 20% for a first offence, methinks. 100% for second and later ones

I have also heard that when they user-tested Clippy, most of the women who used it were like, "It's so creepy, we hate it, can we turn it off?" and the all-male design team took that as a sign to proceed.

Agree, and the scheme has got less progressive not more.

They can track your car, your phone, and you. If they think you're a wrong un, they can get your financial records and possibly medical ones.

We need MORE surveillance????!

good

I do think the 1974 wargame scenario (a three day invasion, repelled, but at significant cost) is one of the most interesting. Hitler seen as fallible. Might Russia attack. Etc.

The two trad books history is changed by the arrival of aliens, signalled very dramatically in the book. In the latest, I'm looking at a similar twist. As for the Confederacy, there's a route for Europe to recognise it but I suspect there would have been another war.

Yes, the "only giant space bats" people. I always qualify my view with 'if British morale holds'.

You are right but it is not fit for purpose
IT MAKES SHIT UP.
Lawyers find nonexistant cases
My brother in law found it misrepresented scientific papers

It is not Luddite to evaluate the quality of what is done.

(also the Luddites had no way of making their point short of violence)

If I had written Trump as the President in my first unpublisheed novel, it would have been written off as ridiculous.