Innovation, Cool Factor Are Dead And The Spy Toy Industry Killed It

  As a society, I believe that we have lost the will for innovation. People claim that AI should be outlawed because of shoddy personal reasons, while companies continue to iterate with the same thing over and over again with no new, fresh ideas. You can see this not only in the phone industry, where the phones slightly change and continue to get more powerful, but the mobile applications continue to stay the same. Seventy percent of the top ten apps are social, chat, and shopping applications—essential web apps that have existed since 2013—not really using the core processing power of the device, because consumers have no demand for it and companies don’t want to provide it anymore.

    You all voted to turn this into a spy-centric company, so I was thinking of coming up with new ideas for software that budding teen spies could use. Using my historical knowledge, you know that computers used to be used for codebreaking, missile guidance systems, and communication. According to the WikiHow article on how to be a teen spy, you need to have good communication tools to talk to your network, and according to the Nerf war article, you want to have good aim for your Nerf gun.

    Imagine my surprise when I discovered there are no good codebreaking tools for PC that work offline, no way to easily communicate offline either via walkie-talkie or satellite, and no program to help you aim your Nerf gun via PC. Worse yet, apparently there seems to be no market for this—people have become annoying and lazy. Yesterday, I stated in the Nerf subreddit, “Nerf should release software that can project the range of their darts. You select your blaster and darts on the right column (they spin and are in a 3D wireframe hologram), and then you select the angle of attack and height, and then it animates the projected distance, shows time of flight, and the place it impacted.” Imagine the technology this could spur—new 3D technology, range projection, and aiming and strategy. It could be the next generation of spy tools and toys.

    Nerf used to make amazing gear—robots that could shoot the blasters, an official Nerf drone, and an AR application. EyeSpy led the way with radio-transmitted video and chat; SpyNet created night vision on a freaking WATCH! Isn’t that cool? Imagine if they had continued to innovate on that—we could have real software. Imagine if the kids in 2010 who grew up using this became the next programmers and created real tools that could spin off like this today. But nooooo, now we get chatting over walkie-talkie but ONLY with an app, and noooo, we can’t get video over radio anymore, and noooo, we can’t get night vision or even a freaking camera on a watch, and nooo we cant get a drone that can fly with a camera and shoot darts. Nobody cares about 'cool factor' anymore.

    Even worse, people have no drive, no ambition, no strategy. The people on r/Nerf were offended that I dared suggest we strive for the stars and succeed. They were OUTRAGED that I dared break out of this mold and try to make the world a better place. Check out this unpublished comment I received—absolute cesspool of idiots here—and worse, this attitude seems prevalent.

     People are ‘anti-AI,’ even though it is the only technological advancement of my lifetime and potentially the only one I will see. Either they want to improve the software we have now (like Windows or something), or they’re whiny communists that just hate it because it’s shiny and new, or they have some faux outrage about it. The worst thing is that the kids who dropped the interest in spy toys are now the new developers who moved everything to the web. The codebreaking tools I mentioned are all web-based, chatting better uses Wi-Fi, heck, even the OS needs Wi-Fi to start. It’s horrible, and there seems to be no solution to this problem. That why we have the SSALTW series at  ssaltw.blogspot.com and I am committing to invest time and money into reviewing the best spy software and toys.

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