We challenged you to come up with tech predictions for 2024 (wrong answers only) – here are some favorites so far The other day we challenged our fine Register readers to share their top technology predictions for 2024 – though with wrong answers only. The best suggestion will win an old ugly Microsoft-themed Christmas sweater. You can check out that contest here: it's got about a couple of hundred comments already, and we'll pick the …
During the pandemic mr Speed went a bit nuts with Legos and knock-off Legos. Those are indeed a saturn V, a Saturn 1B and the Discovery among many others.
Up voted to adjust for irrelevant pedantry.
Regarding the made up convention on the plurality of 'lego' - which brings to mind the old debate surrounding GIF - keeping track of the general inconsistency of the English language becomes a tired charade in edge cases such as lego, although at least there is precedent for the singular matching the plural in idiosyncratic ways (moose/moose vs goose/geese).
My opinion stands that there is not enough time in the world to care about these kinds of grammatical and phonetic exceptions. It is, after all, pronounced GIF.
ODFO, mr. Coward. The Cambridge Dictionary uses "Legos" in one of its examples, so I'll take their word over some rando's on the Internet.
If we were to truly go above and beyond in nit picking, the technically correct use of Lego is LEGO in all caps, or LEGO™ or LEGO®
And is only ever an adjective, not a noun, if the company had its way.
I'll happily take the down votes on the chin for being an ass in my first sentence. But hold my opinion that language is not a static affair and evolves over time; policing it to this extent, in my opinion, is a waste of time.
I'm sure they'll cash-flow-optimize a way to make it much more terrible than that. Everyone will be required to have a subscription-only barely working personal AI assistant that talks to other people's barely working AI assistants. All the "consumer" solutions will feature built-in advertising and absolute minimum viable product levels of reliability, or you can fork over several grand a month for the "enterprise" version to avoid the ads and feverish microsecond interaction tracking.
Of course they're all proprietary. Got GoogleAI? Sorry, it can't "effectively" talk to AppleAI or AmazonAI. We can however sell you enterprise middle-ware negotiator AI that claims to render them compatible at least 10% of the time. Getting a job anywhere will require you to sign up for a subscription to whatever branded AI model they managed to get themselves sold on because everyone is now sending 5000 pointless AI-optimized emails and holding 50 AI-summarized meetings per hour, and you don't want to be the "underperforming" Luddite in the corner having to review all those manually.
Yay future!
A completely bug free, secure, spyware free version of Microsoft software will be developed using AI and available as an NFT using a n environmentally sustainable blockchain. There'll be no comment from Elon Musk as he will have taken a vow of silence, or from Google as they'll be devoting energies into long term support of products 'resting' in the google graveyard.
On a non technical front: the UK government will actually work to learn and understand about technologies before making sweeping pronouncements. Or, if you want something more likely, peace in the Middle East / Climate Change solved / Cure for cancer.
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