"Startling to see how useful the internet has become ... "

I warned my office years ago not to become totally reliant on the internet. It fell on deaf ears.

The internet was way too fun. Way too easy. The dangers of the internet didn't become clear until all the hacking and social engineering and random all became prevalent.

With the advent of powerful AI manipulating our society and our very consciousness to a degree and an end that we cannot see my advice from ages ago has become prescient.

The Singularity cannot be stopped. In fact, it may already be here. I now believe will not even know when we have crossed the event horizon.

Re 5

Random = ransomware

Care to expound on what you offered your company should have done instead of utilize the internet?

#7 | POSTED BY KWRX25

It's probably way above your ability to comprehend being a child of the internet age. But there was a time when we got our jobs done without the aid of the internet at all. Because it did not exist.

It was called a telephone. And NOAA Weather Radio.

Back in those days the weather service used private phone lines inter connected to each office so they essentially had their own private internet. When they allowed connections to the outside world is when the problems began.

And it wasn't about completely eliminating the internet. It was about not becoming completely reliant on it. We needed to keep alternative means available of getting data to the public such as radio sat phones and short wave radios. It was a hard fight because as I said. The internet was too easy and too much fun.

We made it too easy for foreigners scammers and even terrorists in the beginning to steal our personal data. Then the fight became a struggle to make them spend money on internet security.

And now it's a struggle to convince my fellow humans of the existential dangers of AI.

And so it goes ...

... So I know exactly what you're describing.

#9 | POSTED BY KWRX25

Interesting. I thought I detected some meteorology bones in you.

Then you can still remember the Before Times!