People spend one-third of their lives asleep. What if employees could work during that time … in their dreams?
Prophetic, a venture-backed startup founded earlier this year, wants to help workers do just that. Using a headpiece the company calls the “Halo,” Prophetic says consumers can induce a lucid dream state, which occurs when the person having a dream is aware they are sleeping. The goal is to give people control over their dreams, so they can use that time productively. A CEO could practice for an upcoming board meeting, an athlete could run through plays, a web designer could create new templates—“the limiting factor is your imagination,” founder and CEO Eric Wollberg told Fortune.
Edit: someone else beat me to it, I cede to you my bruh
Yeah, fuck that, I’m flying around doing crazy shit in dreams I control. Unless I get paid hourly.
And you really don’t have that level of control over your dreams while lucid dreaming.
Almost never had the pleasure, but I believe one of the main tipoffs that you’re dreaming is whatever text you’re looking at will be illegible. And they are expecting coding to happen.
Though the more interesting screw up is there exists any CEO anywhere that honestly believes I’m not going to use this for porn.
One one hand this tech would be fun to play with on your own. But on the other having to work day and night is very dystopian. Come to think of it do any of these corpos ever think that humans are still needed in capitalism. Like if you forced everyone to have the work ethic they desire humans would probably not socialize or reproduce. A break free work world would bring humanity to extinction in the most depressing way possible. Edit: also if everyone is spending all their time working then who would be the customers. Who is going to buy the things these corpos want to sell.
Who needs to work 10 hours a day when you can work 24? Company owners are going to be so turned on by these news.
I just solved a coding problem this morning that I couldn’t last night because I RESTED MY BRAIN. I’m not making this up. This just happened.
I took a week off for Thanksgiving and came back to understand Dynamo DB single table patterns I was stuck on before leaving. Sleep learning is real!
Okay, but Dynamo DB is also pure baloney. Who thought a single table to include every type of entity was a good design? I’m frustrated because it works so well, but boy do I hate using it
I disagree, it’s quite performant and cost effective. I work for a very large software company and it scales to our needs very well. However, it is emphatically not the solution to everything nor is it a replacement for all traditional RDBMS use cases. It also takes a quite different mindset when thinking about your data than when using SQL.
IMO what it does really well is handle being a persistent data store for well-formed REST API endpoints. When you understand your access patterns and implement your GSIs correctly, a RDBMS can’t match the performance even with well tuned queries. Dynamo excels at giving you a record set when you know exactly which set of records you want and it’s based on one or two very simple conditions.
Where it falls behind is for data warehousing and reporting use cases. Dynamo is comparatively slow and inefficient when it comes to asking complex questions about the data. RDBMS systems are built for that use case and as such have extensive tools to optimize whatever wild queries you want to throw at it.
If you’re interested in learning about single table design, which is not good for all cases, check out this video. I’ve watched it quite a few times and it’s been the biggest help in wrapping my head around how to do the data modeling for it. https://youtu.be/KYy8X8t4MB8
Ok my steam deck finally finished updating. Time to go. 😁
It’s made by the same person as neuralink. It will never be commercialised.
If I can work while I sleep and then not go to my day job…
Exactly my point. When options for working more appear, there is more room for pressuring people economically, and they all end up working more.
