Oh my fucking god, I cannot wait.

Good fonts, good fonts everywhere!

Every time we post a story that mentions a high-PPI notebook, tablet, or smartphone screen, folks chime in about the need for higher pixel densities on the desktop. Well, here you go. Asus has announced a 31.5″ monitor with a “4K Ultra HD” resolution of 3840×2160.

Now I will no longer necessarily have to use my 3rd-gen iPad to read an ebook with decent fonts. And the iPad does have a spectacular screen – far more legible and easier to read than a printed book.

And photos should look glorious on that screen.

I will be getting this; Asus, take my money, please.

As a species, I think humans are too stupid due to evolutionary circumstances to not go extinct.

There’s a fairly good chance that we will create real AI before our final departure, so we may leave successors. Some humans may also sort of survive – either resurrected from stored DNA or kept as near-pets by these AIs.

Think this is all crazy talk?

Imagine what our ancestors would’ve thought about Skyping someone from across the planet, or being able to see nearly any building on any street in the entire world as Google Maps allows.

I don’t believe in the technological singularity, but I do believe that over long time scales things can become radically different, and are almost guaranteed to do so.