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It's very interesting to go to last year's predictions ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746236 ) and search for the word "Russia".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746942
I would like to know what he is predicting for 2023.
Going with some completely random things this year so that I look like a time traveler. - Magnitude 8 earthquake in British Columbia in November. - Major world leader dies in plane crash in France in March. Part of an attempted coup. - JWST breaks. - Lebron misses 64 games due to a right leg injury. - TCU wins the CFP. - Shipping is blocked for 2 weeks on the Mississippi River near Memphis. - Coinbase collapses. Cryp…
He can’t keep getting away with it :(
Wonder whether we’ll have a cyber 911 to push it through, or something cheaper like the necessity to cull far right voices online.
- A new breakthrough from OpenAI will be released, although less sensational than ChatGPT - Content generation and applications of ChatGPT will flood the tech sphere but then stabilize - Mastodon market share will continue to increase, with fluctuating rate, but will not overtake Twitter until similar functionality and performance have been adopted - Twitter will stabilize, but still make some controversial headlines…
Without a marketing department, without ads, and without a non timeline feed, there are very few reasons for major brands to migrate.
Elon quarralled over what is bots, but marketing only accounts, reserved mostly for brand protection makes up another significant portion of Twitter active users. They'll have no reason to shift to a distributed service.
1. Deglobalization accelerates as the Bretton woods organisations become increasingly irrelevant and trade moves to being bloc and region based. 2. The web continues to fracture into separate Euro, Sino, Russo and Americano nets due to increasingly different views in privacy, surveillance, freedom of speech etc. SV companies are slow to pick up on this. 3. Tech layoffs in the Bay Area intensify. When hiring begins ag…
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> The market for stock photography and grunt level copy writing collapses entirely. You assume that with the new technology the total number of people needed in this sector will be reduced, but I think the industry will simply adjust, and the only visible result would be that more content will be produced by the same number of people. This is a competitive market (your success is determined by the amount of money you…
I agree with the original premise. It is a repetition of the history of graphic design: around 2000 you would need a graphic designer to create a good website, it took time and several iterations. It worked similarly for years until Twitter Bootstrap appeared and many jumped to use it as is or do small custom changes. But, collapse completely is a bit extreme.
Going with some completely random things this year so that I look like a time traveler. - Magnitude 8 earthquake in British Columbia in November. - Major world leader dies in plane crash in France in March. Part of an attempted coup. - JWST breaks. - Lebron misses 64 games due to a right leg injury. - TCU wins the CFP. - Shipping is blocked for 2 weeks on the Mississippi River near Memphis. - Coinbase collapses. Cryp…
A lot of cautious and/or negative predictions in this thread. 1. The UK rejoins the EU either literally or effectively (i.e. bound by basically the same agreements). 2. Russia withdraws from Ukraine and enters into good-faith talks about reparations for their invasion. 3. Twitter collapses. 4. Major new environmentally-friendly method of goods transportation discovered which is effectively a drop-in replacement for g…
> 4. Major new environmentally-friendly method of goods transportation discovered which is effectively a drop-in replacement for global shipping. Fusion powered teleportation?