I worked at a company that made IoT stuff (which is an increasingly archaic term). The web team was pitching using a third party tool called ThingSpace to view and manage the things. The web dev said ThingSpace could do all these amazing things automatically. The manager said “can we change the color of the background?” The web dev said “…. no.”

Oh no how unfortunate.

Something I hadn’t considered. AI coding is going to convince managers that they were right all along — that coding can be quick and easy and engineers are just lazy.

Who knew he was waving goodbye.

Certainly not him.

1. Money is made up and not real.
2. As the population ages it will spend more money.
3. Japan has a chronic under- and un-employment problem, and an extremely inefficient economy. An ageing population would increase employment in the healthcare sector.
4. The aged will not live forever.
5. If Japan has to print money to make the accountants happy, it will be inflationary, which might get them out of their decades-long deflationary funk.

The problem solves itself.

Oh no, more space and resources for one of the most crowded and resource-constrained countries on earth.

Deploy the strategic bomb… — oh.

Daddy Vladdy said the Special Military Operation™ to rescue the russian-speakers would be over in two weeks. 🥺