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Comic title: Life in 2030”

This shows guy facing futuristic yet bleak smart home with many IoT devices and AI etc. Smart toilet is updating so he cant use it. Robot wife low battery so cant sleep with her. Fridge locked behind ads and ask to upgrade to premium version. Park is now data center so no walk for him. Smart bed subscription expired so he falls on floor. Air is taxed so he cant breath and vents say pay now to getair. Man looks stressed and sweaty in every panel.

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
    1021·
    20 days ago

    This is silly. A tax is something the government charges you. We’ll be paying a privately owned corporation for our their air.

  • kender242@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    19 days ago

    “Every time we demand to be heard, they hold back our water, ration our air, until we crawl back into our holes, and do as we are told!”

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    17·
    19 days ago

    So many dystopian novel authors predicted this. P K Dick and Gibson among others. Forced to pay for life critical necessities like air and water, as well as fees to enter your apartment or take a shower.

    Companies have given up making anything new. It takes too long, requires a large R&D investment, and expensive tooling to manufacture new things. So they just start making up ways to claim ownership over everything they can and the delivery method to get it there. Robber barons and bridge trolls profiteering as middlemen that actually produce nothing. Want a concert ticket? Buy it through a service that bought it from the venue and pay fees on top of that if you can get them at all on release, if not pay again to the same company that lets scalpers resell and they get fees a second time. Want music? Pay for the data service, pay for the music service, pay again for the album if you actually want to keep it, pay for the cloud you store it in.

    It‘s only getting worse.

    • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world
      2·
      19 days ago

      I wanna do it but my bitch wife says: “Updating: 3% Progress”

      Gonna take her to the scrap heap, what does a clanker know about real love anyway.

      – Boomer humour in 2030

  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    19 days ago

    Bed think literally already happened, some amazon smart bed or some shit that was adjustable and it would fold shut like a clam if you didn’t pay the subscription so you physically couldn’t sleep on it.

    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      19 days ago

      Pod8, not Amazon related but a like 3-8000 dollar mattress topper that can heat or cool depending on a number of factors. The model that adjusts temp is server sided so it will work without a subscription (for now) but just in basic “set temp” mode, when it’s sold as this device that tracks heart rate and movement to dynamically adjust temp. Tech bros with no kids and too much cash love it

      It also stops working if Amazon web services go down, which is hilarious (which is maybe why people link it to Amazon, but that’s a different and worse problem where Amazon controls like 50% of the internet through data hosting)

      • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        19 days ago

        I have a heated mattress pad, but one that also cooled would be great. Not $3k great, but I’d pay a couple hundred. I only need to be able to set the temperature anyway.

    • Tikiporch@lemmy.world
      2·
      19 days ago

      Never heard of this one. Eight sleep smart bed would revert to basic features if you didn’t pay subscription though.

      • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        18 days ago

        I didn’t imagine a future where I’d have to jail break my mattress, but here we are.

        Thankfully I’ve future-proofed my sleeping situation by crashing on a pile of towels in my ex-wife’s parents summer cottage.

  • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    18 days ago

    Philip k. Dick, in his novel Ubik, described the main character being trapped in his apartment because the front door required a .25 fee to open and the MC had to trick the door in order to leave his own home.

    There’s a lot more than that in the book. It would be interesting to see someone try and fail to make a film out of it.