Foresight is 20/20
summary
Argues Apple is assembling the pieces for iGlass is "iPhone for your face", built on ARKit, always-on cameras, object recognition and Siri as primary interface. Proposes device identity via Secure Enclave-backed digital contracts for consent, and new apps that adapt rather than replace humans. Maps and recording replace mapping trucks; VR becomes crowd‑recorded reality. Raises concrete harms—privacy, consent, visual clutter, housing and sewer capacity—and names predictable abuses like a platform’s inevitable fart app.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Start
- 2:11Apple is a conservative company
- 5:58Foresight is 20/20
- 8:20Transparent Aluminum
- 14:06Siri becomes the main interface
- 21:01An internet built on consent
- 21:57Consent and the Law
- 22:32Digital contracts restore consent
- 23:21Every tool is also a weapon
- 25:41Digital Identity
- 28:49Training our replacements
- 32:03You want a dystopia? That's how you get a distopia.
- 32:42Colonizing the middle class
- 33:21Obligatory Matrix reference
- 34:36Using technology wisely
- 35:20Augmenting humans
- 36:03Adaptive technology
- 41:01What about the sewer system?
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