EDIT: A rough timeline of events here:
  1. In 2024, a user noticed this odd traffic on their local network, took a screenshot of the graph, and posted it to Twitter
  2. After discussing the issue with other Twitter users, the original poster realized that this graph was actually a mistake with their router or something. This reporting software was reporting some other device’s network traffic as being the washing machine’s traffic. The washing machine was actually only using a reasonable amount of data.
  3. Despite this past revelation, in 2026, someone put together a “meme” of sorts comparing past predictions of the future to that 2024 graph
  4. For whatever reason, that “meme” was put through AI post-processing of some sort. Was the attempt to “upscale” this image after it had been passed around and been automatically compressed down by various platforms? Was it someone using some newfangled AI-assisted compression technique in an attempt to create a smaller file size than any of the more traditional compression techniques? No idea. For whatever reason, it seems someone put it through some sort of AI post-processing that left the image with some nonsense text on the graph portion.
  5. I saw this “meme” and decided to share it here without scrutinizing the text on the graph. As mentioned in my first point, this graph was originally posted years ago, so I was already familiar with it and did not feel the need to read into it in the image I was sharing. I felt safe assuming it was just the same graph that I remember seeing years back.
  6. After users here called out the nonsense text, I just recreated the “meme” from scratch. I grabbed the original screenshot of the graph from Twitter and a stock photo of clouds, and just placed some text on the image so that this is more-or-less the same exact “meme”, but without the AI gibberish
  • itisileclerk@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Well in 1985 they “predicted” that in 2015 we will be so advanced that we will all have Home Cold Fusion Reactor, flying cars, double neck tie and each home will have multiple Fax Machines.

    • balsoft@lemmy.ml
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      20 days ago

      Well, we now technically have a fusion reactor in the sky, and we can receive the energy it beams down right at our homes

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    21 days ago

    Go a little back and look at the prediction made in 1949 for the future, written in a book with the title “1984”.

    Sure, it came a little late than forecast, but a lot of it came true.

    Today’s society has been pretty predictable for quite a while:

    • Political and social environments like now have been pretty common recurrences througout History, with the rise of Fascism in the early XX century being the previous time it happened (incredibly similar to nowadays, not just are most propaganda techniques and discourse used by the rightwing almost exactly same, but we even have a XXI century version of the NAZIs called Zionism doing pretty much the same thing as their predecessors did in 1930s Germany). Society and Economics seem to follow a grand-cycle with a period of around 100 years and we’re back at the point of the cycle of “Highest inequality and the Elites diverting the discontentment of the populus away from them by funding Far-Right politics scapegoating foreigners and using tools of authoritarianism in power” hence why this shit ressonates so much with the 1920 - 30s.
    • The extreme desire for surveillance of open authoritarians and those with covert authoritarian leanings (lots of those in Europe plus the previous regime in the US was already the latter, though now it’s the former) and the forms it could take were pretty predictable by observing the secret police of the Fascist regimes in Southern Europe that lasted until the 70s and 80s as well in the Eastern Block, most notably the Stasi in Germany. It’s quite linear to map what Stasi would do with today’s technology and come up with using smartphones as mobile surveillance devices with the complicity of the Tech companies that control them (predictably so if you look at, for example, how IBM helped NAZI Germany), surveillance of citizen’s use of the Internet and modern digital communications (already done by the 7-eyes for ages and explaining things like the repeated attempts at imposing Chat Control on EU citizens) and the increasing automation of mass trawling surveillance made possible by ML to allow far wider civil society surveillance levels than were possible for the Stasi.

    Sure, people used to think “Democracy” and thus “This time is different”, but it turns out politicians and elites under Democracy still operate per the very same principles of Power as in the early XX century, they just managed over the years since then to get the populace to stop thinking and talking about Power itself and instead think only in terms of Politics all the while making sure Politics was subservient to older forms of Power, most notably Money.

    Personally, ever since I observed how governments in the West reacted to the 2008 Crash, most notably who they chose to save and who they chose to pay for it, that I realized that the power of Democracy (specifically, the control of Citizens over how countries are managed by chosing who manages it using their Vote) has been made almost entirelly subservient to the power of Money, which is why it looks so much like we live in Oligarchies with theatrical Voting that changes only that which Money doesn’t care about (hence the loud Identity Wars in the Moral plane between the dominant parties) rather than real Democracy.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    20 days ago

    If they ever sell a smart hammer that measures my impact strength and sends it to some system somewhere for further analysis then I’m giving up building. Let the damn AI build. Why does the world incorporate tech even when it adds nothing to a pre-existing method and drives up the price? Oh…I get it now.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Though it would be cool to do that and then set up microphones to pick up the house settling sounds and see if there’s a correlation. If only those with the resources to set that up could be trusted to not abuse that access to data because I wouldn’t consent to some data firm having access to mics in my place.

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Because “data is the new oil.”

      Doesn’t matter what that data is, collect it first, and figure out how to sell it later.

      • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        20 days ago

        And the typical consumer has no critical thinking skills and also, is ignorant, and very often a moron, and a sucker. People aren’t smart. The appliances are lol. And the people at the top of giant companies have a greed that is insatiable.

        • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          20 days ago

          You say that, until your hammer data is used to detect improper use, which your employer’s insurance can use to deny a claim.

          Or it can be used to void a warranty. Or it could detect G-forces of your commute to work and raise your car insurance rates for hard accelerations. Or a biometric sensor in the handle can tell your boss if you can work another 30 minutes before there is a financially significant risk of heatstroke.

          You get the idea, that data is useless, until some hairbrained jackass packages it and sells it’s to an even more unscrupulous asshole.

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    When I installed pihole at home the Number One request in the network was the Google nest thermostat. Why the fuck do you need to upload the temperature or other stuff this often?

    • Hoimo@ani.social
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      21 days ago

      80s cyberpunk where they have video calling and moon resorts, but the internet is closer to a system of carrier pidgeons than whatever the fuck this is.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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      21 days ago

      We have the tech for flying cars, it’s just not practical or economical. We’ve even got flying bikes and good jet packs

      • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml
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        21 days ago

        Isn’t someone in China trying to do flying taxis. No idea about plausibility I just read things on the interweeb.

      • coolfission@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        Flying cars would be a nightmare for the FAA. Helicopters are enough for cases where you need to land in a small area where fixed-wing aircraft can’t

        • titanicx@lemmy.zip
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          21 days ago

          The idiots around my place can’t even get around in regular cars. Pretty damn sure half of them would be dead within 2 months so it’s flying cars.

  • Skysurfer@slrpnk.net
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    21 days ago

    There was but, from what I recall, it turned out to be a bug in the router software not counting the traffic correctly.

  • Skysurfer@slrpnk.net
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    21 days ago

    There was but, from what I recall, it turned out to be a bug in the router software not counting the traffic correctly.

  • ActualGrapesTasteGreen@piefed.zipEnglish
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    21 days ago

    I just checked. My LG washer and LG dryer both transmit ~30KB a day whether we use them or not. I do like being notified when they finish since they’re in the basement and my work desk is upstairs. I wouldn’t know otherwise.

    • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml
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      21 days ago

      Have dumb washer and dryer. I set an alarm for an hour. It won’t hurt your clothes sitting for a second.

      • Grass@sh.itjust.works
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        21 days ago

        I miss the one at my old apartment that was combined wash and dry. I could toss stuff in at 4am., eat breakfast, fuck off for work, come back and its all washed and dried with no sitting there all day wet smell.

  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    From this point on , any useful new technology, any advancement in medicine, will be for the very wealthy. The rest of us will be taking ivermectinz and paying unholy fees just to keep driving our falling-apart cars.

  • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
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    21 days ago

    “Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Shirt! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock!” - LG Dishwasher, probably.