What a wild dystopic vision of the future you have.
replyWhat's worth stealing, to a dude with a robot?
replyChances are, whatever it is won't be found in a regular residential property.
A cheap drone makes casing burglary targets much easier
replyWait till there are organ harvesting bots. Only half joking, I am afraid.
replyFunny you should mention robots burglars. I just read this:
replySo exactly as we "modern" people are to the Amish, yet the Amish persist in its way of life.
replyTa da, this is the kind of future that will become the actual one, to everyone's surprise in the comment section.
replyI'm with the Tal Shiar on this one
replyViolence is always an option. In many cases, it's the only real option.
replyIf 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.
replyYeah, 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.
replyThose industries have been reshoring for more than 5 years.
reply"Predictions are difficult. Especially about the future."
replyWe have a choice right now on whether that world exists or not
replyExactly. 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.
replyburglars generally don't need technology and this likely won't change soon
replywith 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