Give me a truly sunlight readable display (transreflective polarized lamination or whatever works well), a high fidelity glass trackpad, good keyboard, solid case build quality and decent internal specs and I'll buy a new laptop.
I would pay $10 a month for an ad free search engine that serves objective (not "personalised") query results related to what I'm looking for that doesn't sell my data, with similar features to Google Scholar and ideally even greater granularity, but for the whole web.
The intramuscular vaccinations currently available were never going to stop the spread and anyone familiar with animal studies of similar approaches to CoV vaccination knew that. Stating bold claims unsupported by balance of evidence and knowledge of mechanisms was a deliberate choice of messaging in hope of increasing campaign uptake.
They're helpful for preventing severe disease and death, for now -- this effect seems to be significantly offset by reduction in risk avoidance behaviours and government support for said behaviours.
The first gen vaccines do appear help somewhat with reducing infectivity period somewhat.. but once again this benefit is diluted when people are told to burn their source control (masks) and get back to the office.
We need better vaccines deliverable to mucosal membranes for infectious aerosol entry point protection and released under open source licensing. We also need better early treatments with sound scientific basis, and better post-acute-'recovery' sequelae treatments developed with the basis of a growing understanding of endothelial and immune pathology downstream of SARS2 infection.
Second from last but not least, we need efficacious airborne transmission interrupting non-pharmaceutical interventions that don't rely solely on individual behaviour. Finally, it would be nice to have fewer grifters and influencers blocking sound action while spreading nonsense.
The CDC now says you can cough into someone's mouth if your boss says it's alright.
The last two years of second order effect guessing miss-steps has seen those at the helm of the organisation burn through generations of credibility like a hand launched bottle rocket.
It can indeed be compared. They both utilise computational capacity in an algorithmically distributed fashion as a means to an end. The former requires specialised single purpose hardware, is a profligate waste of resources and mindshare for no sound economic, technological or environmental reason -- whereas the latter piggybacks in the cycle gaps on spare commercial and domestic computing to analyse radio telescope data with the goal of perhaps some day finding genuinely world changing evidence that intelligent alien life is out there in our light cone.
I would buy in an instant if: stereoscopic displays; smartphone tethering for battery, processing and connectivity; and lose the creepy gargoyle camera.
Ultra comfortable reusable P100 equivalent respirators with a low profile, consumer friendly form factor and a pre-purchase companion app for picking optimally fitting size and shape using front facing phone sensors. Maybe also track metrics like usage, ambient air pollution and exhaled gas mix on premium models.
Why not tow it into Venus or Mars orbit instead? They could do with the benefits of having a decent sized moon. It would make terraforming and long term habitation more straightforward and likely to succeed as well as providing lots of useful materials feedstock atop the gravity well.