The “pedal assist” and downhill regenerative breaking would be nice honestly.

. . . Oh sorry, are we only shitting on CES stuff this year?

But what about AI and ma jerb? /s

That is exactly the kind of usability problem that is totally real, but also very manageable. It’s not trivial, but it’s on everyone list of things that will get better as the technology matures. People had the same kind of objections to computers and the internet. (I can’t believe I need to belabor this point in a sub about tech trends)

As for what I’m personally doing about this, I’m the cofounder of a company using blockchain to track beneficial ownership of climate assets. So I think that the arguments in favor of blockchain are very convincing.

If you were designing a public ownership registry from scratch today, what technology would you use for settlement and clearance if not blockchain? You a fan of graphite on tree pulp?

The public discourse on this is all very confused, so you’re not alone.

ERC721/1155 (NFTs) is a smart contact technical specification. Asking about that might be the wrong question. Is the further of art ownership attribution digital? Yes. Is the future of digital ownership record keeping blockchain based? Yes.