Ancient people, jumping over a bonfire and merging into a single many-bodied deity on the night of Ivan Kupala, felt like god. You do not e…
Ancient people, jumping over a bonfire and merging into a single many-bodied deity on the night of Ivan Kupala, felt like god. You do not exactly have variety in entertainment when you are an ancient person. Fortunately, we as a civilization develop, and our entertainment industry develops: fights in coliseum arenas, witch burnings, bull runs, collective prayers in search of a feeling of divine presence. In the morning to church, in the afternoon to the market square of slave traders, in the evening to look at the hanged. More entertainment, life is more fun. Technologies develop, entertainment industries develop. So instead of a night orgy and whooping over a burning person, we read books, news, go to exhibitions. Steven Pinker says that we are now living through the best of times. The level of violence and relative safety around us are the highest compared with historical values. Of course! We have wall-to-wall events, conferences, and news hooks here. Airbnb has a new season, a new crazy iPad came out, soon there is the Figma conference, then the expected WWDC. And next Tuesday there will be another Google I/O, where McKinsey consultants will again pretend they understand something about the technology world. Interesting what they will fantasize this time! When was the fantasy about an assistant calling a restaurant for you? 5 years have passed... Why did the consultants decide to hold the event in May? To be earlier than Apple and their WWDC in June. For our friends from Wall Street this is important! "In short, we will draw beautiful slides, tell them about super-features. What do you mean we cannot make it like that? You are a programmer - just write code there and everything will work. Come on, I believe you can do it. Or we will have to question your competence." New heroes appear in the competition of announcements. Tomorrow OpenAI will tell something. According to rumors, they want to beat Google. It is long past time to throw down the king of the hill. We need new heroes! These ones to the stake! The entertainment industry in all its glory. The entertainment industry is our god. - Will there be a screenshot? - I like the emptiness of the announcement on the site. "We have everything under the hood," the site seems to say. I wish tomorrow would come sooner