Framework CEO warns AI boom threatens “scenario in which personal computing as we know it is dead”

[Redaktion]

Framework CEO Nirav Patel warns that the AI boom and a "winner-takes-all" scramble for chips and storage could drive up component costs and push consumers toward cloud-leased, closed devices, effectively ending personal computing as traditionally understood. While acknowledging progress in repairability across the industry, he positions Framework's upcoming Next Gen Event as part of a renewed pledge to defend user ownership through upgradable, repairable hardware and local control over data and computation.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Framework-CEO-warns-AI-boom-threatens-scenario-in-which-personal-computing-as-we-know-it-is-dead.1271416.0.html

[capnkimo]

kinda like in Ready Player One, predictive programming maybe

[RobertJasiek]

"the massive AI boom, which many fear will burst in the near future"

which many hope will burst in the near future

[shano]

"The industry is asking you to own nothing and be happy. Computers are no longer a bicycle for the mind. They are becoming the self-driving car that takes you directly to the destination."

"We will always be fighting for a future where you own everything and be free"
However, Patel and Framework aren't saying goodbye to upgradable and repairable laptops. Instead, Patel dubbed his post a manifesto and a pledge to keep fighting the good fight so that people can purchase devices that they truly own.

He ended the post by stating, "No matter how inevitable the AI-takes-all scenario may sound, as long as there is a person in the world who still wants to own their means of computation, we will be here to build the hardware that enables it. That means computers that you can own at the deepest level and do what you want with."



I don't get how people associate ownership with freedom. The problem with cloud-based solutions is not that you don't own anything but that the cloud is owned.

Remember the public phone in the Matrix?

Having a commons p2p network with anonymous public devices puts an end to private computing but by obsoleting it with something better.

Defending private ownership is basically trying to freeze history to the cave man condition where we store stuff in caves. Instead we can move everything out on the square and use it rather than own it. As long as it is a commons and community-driven.