alt Hacker NewsThis 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."
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What a wild dystopic vision of the future you have.
Ta da, this is the kind of future that will become the actual one, to everyone's surprise in the comment section.
What's worth stealing, to a dude with a robot?
Chances are, whatever it is won't be found in a regular residential property.
Funny you should mention robots burglars. I just read this:
I'm with the Tal Shiar on this one
Violence is always an option. In many cases, it's the only real option.
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.
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
We have a choice right now on whether that world exists or not
So exactly as we "modern" people are to the Amish, yet the Amish persist in its way of life.