> Eon’s mission is to produce the world’s largest connectome and highest-fidelity brain emulation, targeting a complete digital emulation of a mouse brain and laying the groundwork for eventual human-scale emulation.
and:
> Eon is scaling its team and infrastructure to attempt the mouse and human brains next.
The "eventual human-scale emulation" and "human brains next" would have to be raising ethics concerns about digital slavery (and worse) for the emulated human.
That goal seems pretty far down the wrong track of "just because we could, without asking if we should". o_O
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I agree. I have a daughter attending primary school in Oslo(barneskole); they use iPad for almost everything because some years ago Norwegian government decided that using a tablet is important for they digital skills.
As result, we have to spend half hour after dinner everyday to help her practicing reading and writing because they spend so much time in front of a screen.
I don't argue that using digital tools can be helpful but replacing almost all handwriting with digital devices, in my opinion, is harmful for children development.
I couldn't agree more with this list.
While I was at university,I used to imagine software engineering job like a place where like minded people talked all the time about algorithms,new technologies etc. A place where senior engineers would guide/mentor you, where you could take time to create the best code/solutions... :D
For me, discovering that soft skills often are more valuable than tech skills was a huge wake up call.
I have recently bought a Tuxedo Laptop because I was tired of "Windows rot", Microsoft invasive ads and surveillance; I'm happy with my choice but there are many annoying issues affecting Linux desktop experience especially multi-screen support and docking stations support.
I found this article useful to understand where these problems come from and made me appreciate the effort KDE / Gnome developers put in their projects.
