We live in the future!

You forgot "cable television, but over the internet and no one has all the channels."

Personally I'm a fan of fake certificate that says you paid money for one of the plagiarism machine's works

I swear that most commenters are young people because back in the 90s-2000s, taxis and hotels were hot fucking garbage.

Taxis would go on joy rides to up the cost or refuse you if you were black.

Hotels would tell you to go suck a dick because their price listed outside is not for you, and if you want a place, they have a room with roaches near the heater.

Uber/Airbnb were gamechangers that broke that monopoly.

Unfortunately, they have gotten to shit. But you know what? Taxis and hotels have cleaned up their act. Because the moment they go to shit again, Uber/Airbnb will come in and eat their lunch.

Calling AirBnB "a hotel chain" is an insult to hotels.

Hotels don't require you to clean somebody else's house while you are on vacation like a maid, and then charging you a cleaning fee for missing a spot. There isn't even much of a price difference nowadays, so staying at a hotel wins every time.

Where is “social media surveillance apparatus”?

What about hyper-intrusive handheld ad machine?

I see no one has mentioned Nazi microblog platform yet.

Doorbell camera surveillance network

Tough question. I'm a big fan of making the plagiarism machine pretend to be a text based adventure game for my amusement, but I also like that the illegal cab company will also deliver food or groceries when I don't feel up to leaving my house.

Money for criminals*

Until everybody ruined it. When people started investing instead of spending, we were fucked.

Hey, its not fake money for criminals! It's barely legal casino, sheesh!

Trust me bro, Capitalism is necessary for innovation, just trust me bro

We actually experience reality a fraction of a second in the past.

Self-driving road killer machines.

I misread "Illegal crab company" and was so confused.

• User-stocked adictive digital social circle.
• Digital news media sources using Pavlovian click-response headlines.
• Human subconscious-targetting product promotion systems.
• Automated individual tracking and digital-model building systems.

Plagirized reddit

all money is fake tho?

Intellectual property is a figment of our imaginations. So I’m voting for the magical copyright violator box.

I'll take the surveillance cameras strapped to a garbage screen strapped directly to my face with controllers

In case any of you are confused about what these are supposed to be:

Uber/Lyft

AirBnB

Bitcoin

ChatGPT

Can we have option 4?

-Love all the disruption and none of the intended product

Edit: or the option where I can count…

Cause nobody ever committed crimes for USD?

I'll take illegal cab company over shitty actual cab company any day tyvm

Image Transcription: Twitter Poll

Adam Kotsko, @adamkotsko

What's your favorite tech innovation?

Illegal cab company [16%]

Illegal hotel chain [17%]

Fake money for criminals [32%]

Plagiarism machine [35%]

32% voted NASDAQ, huh?

I'm not getting baited into well akshuallyying any of these, nice try!

This is quite a shitty way of portraying these technologies.

Uber/Grab might be banned by some countries, but I'm sure as hell I'll never take a traditional taxi. They haven't earned my trust, while Uber and such allow reviewing the drivers, and the driver wouldn't think of scamming you. (Generally speaking.)

For longer stays I wouldn't book a hotel room because it lacks basic facilities like microwave, cutleries, washing machine, etc.

Blockchain itself is a great thing, it could be definitely useful for something. Cryptocurrencies, however, are indeed evil. Toy money for criminals.

AI tools are useful for many things. Plagiarism is just one (ab)usecase. There are tons of other things that you can achieve with it while not committing plagiarism.

How about toilet cleaning robots stealing our jobs?

My favorite is still "Human Misery Threshold" for businesses

What is "illegal cab company" supposed to represent?