I personally would have concerns that North Korea - or more precise its leader - could take such actions personally and could strike back in a more... ehm... "direct and personal" fashion...
I have nothing against Linux or libreoffice. I just think forcing thousands of workers to drastically alter their work environment is going to be traumatic and I’ll lay odds that in 12 months they switch back or to a hybrid model.
Or what’s just as likely, workers will use personal Windows computers to do their work and shuffle things onto their work computers as needed. People don’t like change.
Having to bring your own equipment to work seems to be such a big thing in America that Americans assume it works the same everywhere. I'm pretty sure German workers wouldn't even dream of using their own computers for work. Not that they even could, because German employers would never let those computers onto their network in the first place.
It is also a force multiplier in terms of extracting wealth and concentrating it into the hands of an elite few. Every technological force multiplier is also a societal effect multiplier.
I think it's well-established that IQ is not correlated with empathy, and those with the highest IQ are likely to take the most wealth. I mean, look at where the smartest people are now! Wisdom does not come with intelligence, and it fact the opposite may be true.
And if this discussion proves anything, it proves that we need to be cautious rather than flippant. We need to stop AI development, instead of waiting to see what happens.
Sony has the worst case of not-invented-here syndrome. If they released a great mp3 player before Apple we could be living in a very different world. Instead they forced you to convert your MP3s to ATRAC.
Hah... somehow i have this feeling that we are heading right back into the "good old days" of separated BBS networks, some commercial, some private, but none of them interconnected.
We've already done this. In effect, we're running a private "internet" that uses the public internet as one of the communications channels, but does not interact with any internet servers beyond that.
It's really beautiful and freeing to have an "internet" that works really well, even if it is a very tiny one.
Well not exactly downsizing on my part... BUT my "daily driver" Laptop is an Thinkpad R60 i bought for very cheap a long time ago and my Desktop at home is an old Compaq dc7800 (Core 2 Quad, 8 GB RAM) that i salvaged from electronic waste and got back running. So far, that is much more computing power than i really need, so absolutely no interest in upgrading anytime soon.
