Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Good stuff. Well, I've got a theme for today that I hope you like. Sometimes when I'm watching the news I'll be writing down my little notes for the show and I'll be looking at them and I'll say to myself, huh, I feel like there's a theme that's emerging, sort of organically. Like I didn't have to try to look for it. It was just sort of…

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tart a little bit. Did you know that if you took a room that had Wi-Fi in it and also human beings walking around in that room, and then you let AI study the visual, you know, by video of the people walking around, but also you give it all the information about the Wi-Fi bouncing around, that it can actually learn to identify the shape of a human in the room so that later, when you take the video away, the Wi-Fi can recreate humans walking around inside a room that you're not in? It just has to have access to the Wi-Fi and it can reproduce them just like stick figures walking around with arms and legs. So basically wherever

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there are signals bouncing around and also humans, they can be identified from a distance already. Current technology. It's been tested and works. Now what's that do for law enforcement, you ask? Well, I can imagine it would do a lot. But there's a privacy issue of course, so we'll keep an eye on that. As of this morning I had over 3 million views on my post on X in which I explained what I ca…

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