The “transferiat” thing sounds like the Nazi idea of “useless eaters”

Not even that. The only computer you’ll be able to buy will effectively be an Alexa speaker through which you tell whichever AI service you subscribe to what you want, and it’ll sometimes get it right enough. Nothing will work properly, but soon people will forget that there once was deterministic computing, that you could own a machine that would predictably follow instructions and, if the instructions are correct, get reliable results. To them, computers must have always been a vaguely sucky form of magic, and oldtimers’ tales of mouse menus, command lines and dumb machines that could only do what they were instructed to sound like some kind of Amish horse-and-buggy shit.

Do the 18% of Japanese who agree mean Buddhism or Shintō?

Good thing RAM is cheap and abundant, right?

AFAIK, it’s privately held by the founders, who are largely driven by ideals and have no intention of selling it.