[narrator]

This reminds me of the movie Edge of Tomorrow where the main character decides he doesn't want to fight the aliens today and instead goes into town to get a drink at the pub. The aliens still get him.

Robots and stuff are going to start appearing everywhere soon. He's not going to like that. Hoodlums are probably going to start burglarizing his house with their robot accomplices. Then he won't be able to go outside because he doesn't have a robot bodyguard. His UBI would have paid him to stay inside and stare at the wall, but he won't sign up for that cause it requires a smartphone and an identity implant. Probably wind up homeless with a handwritten sign, "Destroy All Clankers! Anything (without an embedded microchip) helps."

[drakythe]

What a wild dystopic vision of the future you have.

[lou1306]

If things get as much as 10% as chaotic as you predict, there will be massive turmoil and the "Destroy all Clankers" party will actually be the one in charge.

[narrator]

Yeah, except we'll be a colony of China and those T800s will be on every street corner cause we didn't want to build datacenters and couldn't find a place to do yucky unaesthetically pleasing stuff like refining rare earth minerals and other primary industries anywhere that wasn't China.

[lurk2]

Those industries have been reshoring for more than 5 years.

[Earw0rm]

What's worth stealing, to a dude with a robot?

Chances are, whatever it is won't be found in a regular residential property.

[mcmcmc]

A cheap drone makes casing burglary targets much easier

[generic92034]

Wait till there are organ harvesting bots. Only half joking, I am afraid.

[Hnrobert42]

Funny you should mention robots burglars. I just read this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317093

[thomastraum]

Ta da, this is the kind of future that will become the actual one, to everyone's surprise in the comment section.

[abdulhaq]

I'm with the Tal Shiar on this one

[edgarvaldes]

So exactly as we "modern" people are to the Amish, yet the Amish persist in its way of life.

[tilltheend]

Violence is always an option. In many cases, it's the only real option.

[micromacrofoot]

burglars generally don't need technology and this likely won't change soon

with tracking in laptops/phones/airtags/etc it's more likely to be the enemy than the tool or even the object of acquisition

even in 2026 the most sophisticated stuff we get are wifi jammers and keyfob intercepts and that's still like the top <1% of sophistication, most of petty theft is all the classic smash and grab because desperate people don't have the bandwidth for sophistication

relevant: https://xkcd.com/538/

I'm sure we'll get hackers trying to hack your home assistant bot to steal your credit card numbers though

[HeyLaughingBoy]

"Predictions are difficult. Especially about the future."

[reactordev]

We have a choice right now on whether that world exists or not

[georgeburdell]

Exactly. People make this technology with impunity. If they felt repercussions for working with the “bad guys”, it would give them pause before accepting a job with Flock, Andruil, Anthropic, etc.