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I defected to the PS5 after 30 years of PC gaming — here's why I have no regrets about swapping the RAM…

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I've been an avid PC gamer since the early 1990s. My first computer, bought specifically to play Star Wars: X-Wing, was a plucky 486DX running at 33MHz (cutting-edge at the time — well, only behind the 486DX2, but that was too pricey). I have fond memories of playing Doom on the office LAN and getting addicted to Quake when online gaming began (thanks to QuakeWorld, which made dial-up modem play viable as opposed to an utter lag-fest).

I could ramble on with nostalgic gaming recollections, but the point is I played Quake obsessively — to a high competitive level in a clan — then I lived and breathed EverQuest for several years, and down the line, I was totally lost in World of Warcraft for another few years, and so on.

I've always been a PC gamer, through and through — I did swear off MMORPGs, mind, as I...

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Quote of the day by pioneer of cybernetics Norbert Wiener: 'The automated machine is the economic equivalent of slave labour' — foreshadowing the displacement of human labor in the years to come

For as long as humanity has envisioned a future co-existing with machines, there have been fears that labor could be displaced. These fears first sparked during the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s, but have continued in the years since. Most recently, the rise of generative AI has raised these fears