Yikes! Lots of not great stuff on the way 😄 I have so many thoughts about so many of these, I will have to let them rest some before I come back. But the one thing I must say now: we are nowhere near sentient AI. In fact, 'AI' as it is not 'artificial intelligence,' rather it is 'accelerated ignorance.' Miles and miles into the future, if it ever happens at all. Chances are better we wipe everything we know off the planet first. Now, that's not to say people won't mistake something for sentient AI. That's been happening for a long time and will persist, likely in perpetuity. You know, sadly.
Okay, let's see if I can get into a few more of these. There's so many, Charlotte 😅It may take me all year to get through them.
Sub fatigue. I thought you meant, like, to newsletters, but it seems like you meant for streaming services. Personally I was a (relatively) early adopter and remain generally satisfied. I ditched cable before Netflix was a thing, and the only reason I've contemplated leaving streaming services is when they start to feel too much like cable. For example, football. American football. This is not something I want to see, ever. So if I didn't have Prime for other reasons, I'd have ditched it. Max is pushing it with all the sports and reality shit cluttering my menu. If they'd even give me a way to curate what I see, I'd be happier with them. But they won't. All those apps are pieces of junk, and I'm surprised they work at all.
Friends. Anyone have a few extra? 😫😅Kidding, kidding, mostly kidding. I have a ton of friends and am lucky enough to always have had friends and to make friends fairly easily. It's spending time with them that's tricky. As for friends over marriage, I mean. Marriage can suck really bad, but it can be very helpful, too. I think it depends a lot on who you're married to and why. Like your philosophy of marriage. I cannot say I am sad to see a decline in traditional marriages, though. Those tend to benefit men and cost women a lot.
Climate. What a shitstorm. Not just the literal global warming, but the discourse around all of it. Like most things in modern life, the solutions seem fairly straightforward and obvious. So it's not about solving the climate crisis or the housing crisis or any crisis other than how to effectively deal with psychopaths. We have not solved that one, and this is the problem of our age--and by 'our age' I mean recorded history. Indeed the recording of history itself may be, in part, a psychopathic act, but that's an off the cuff ob, so please don't hold me to it.
Okay, that's all I have today. Hope your week is off to a great start! Ciao!
Very interesting predictions that I could not even have thought of. The section on Friendships, especially around housing arrangements, have sparked my imagination and wish to explore further for entrepreneurial opportunities.
Also, for anyone who likes playing predictions with money, a contest for 2024 predictions with a cash prize:
https://www.metaculus.com/tournament/ACX2024/?has_group=false&project=2844&order_by=-activity
These are great!
>> Cable TV will continue to die and a big player in the alt media will buy a major network.
I can see this. I think legacy media is kind of back, or at least alt media is becoming more similar to it
Yikes! Lots of not great stuff on the way 😄 I have so many thoughts about so many of these, I will have to let them rest some before I come back. But the one thing I must say now: we are nowhere near sentient AI. In fact, 'AI' as it is not 'artificial intelligence,' rather it is 'accelerated ignorance.' Miles and miles into the future, if it ever happens at all. Chances are better we wipe everything we know off the planet first. Now, that's not to say people won't mistake something for sentient AI. That's been happening for a long time and will persist, likely in perpetuity. You know, sadly.
I think you are right about AI.
The Asian prediction trend is fascinating.
sharing mine!
https://open.substack.com/pub/crackpot/p/2024-predictions?r=wcecy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Okay, let's see if I can get into a few more of these. There's so many, Charlotte 😅It may take me all year to get through them.
Sub fatigue. I thought you meant, like, to newsletters, but it seems like you meant for streaming services. Personally I was a (relatively) early adopter and remain generally satisfied. I ditched cable before Netflix was a thing, and the only reason I've contemplated leaving streaming services is when they start to feel too much like cable. For example, football. American football. This is not something I want to see, ever. So if I didn't have Prime for other reasons, I'd have ditched it. Max is pushing it with all the sports and reality shit cluttering my menu. If they'd even give me a way to curate what I see, I'd be happier with them. But they won't. All those apps are pieces of junk, and I'm surprised they work at all.
Friends. Anyone have a few extra? 😫😅Kidding, kidding, mostly kidding. I have a ton of friends and am lucky enough to always have had friends and to make friends fairly easily. It's spending time with them that's tricky. As for friends over marriage, I mean. Marriage can suck really bad, but it can be very helpful, too. I think it depends a lot on who you're married to and why. Like your philosophy of marriage. I cannot say I am sad to see a decline in traditional marriages, though. Those tend to benefit men and cost women a lot.
Climate. What a shitstorm. Not just the literal global warming, but the discourse around all of it. Like most things in modern life, the solutions seem fairly straightforward and obvious. So it's not about solving the climate crisis or the housing crisis or any crisis other than how to effectively deal with psychopaths. We have not solved that one, and this is the problem of our age--and by 'our age' I mean recorded history. Indeed the recording of history itself may be, in part, a psychopathic act, but that's an off the cuff ob, so please don't hold me to it.
Okay, that's all I have today. Hope your week is off to a great start! Ciao!
Very interesting predictions that I could not even have thought of. The section on Friendships, especially around housing arrangements, have sparked my imagination and wish to explore further for entrepreneurial opportunities.