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Standardization around Personal Note taking/Knowledge management, format of storing, seamless import/export between different services or personal tools.
The request was for prediction, not fantastical pipe dreams.
The year of the coworking space: - Substantial number of tech workers remain remote as vaccines role out - Remote workers crave community after covid lockdowns - Commercial real estate is cheap If remote is the future I expect to see mega coworking spaces filled with desks, gyms, spas, bars, workshops, etc. Will have the benefit of being able to choose who you're around every day and without the gaze of your company'…
We are turning our workplaces into identity politics re-education camps, and paying our own prison guards.
my predictions: 1. the vaccine will prove effective against a certain strains of virus but ineffective against other strains, giving a false confidence and later re-emergence of corona. 2. WFH will continue. and companies planning to reopen offices in mid 2021, will postpone till 2022. 3. Trump will refuse to leave White House. grabs popcorn 4. College students graduating in 2021 will face severe competition with 202…
Health and Human Services will constitutionally designate Social Media as a public health emergency, allowing all states (while in states of emergency) to include restrictions to accessing social media or restrict the function of information on those network or restrict the price of ad bidding and data markets.
This is a bold prediction. It sounds plausible, but I would doubt the ability of the federal government to do this effectively. what constitutes "social media"? further, shutting down websites at random or just specific domains would be wildly unpopular with all voters. I like how you're thinking, though
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inflation will start being a problem If that happens then interest rates will rise, which will be very, very bad for both businesses and home owners. If it happened quickly enough it'd make 2008 look like a walk in the park.
The US isn't going to start facing meaningful consumer inflation for the exact same reason Japan didn't / hasn't. And for the same reason all the Keynesian economists have been hilariously baffled by Japan's situation for decades now, they'll be entirely baffled (and have been for the past decade) by the US and its 0% rates not spurring rampant inflation. Their dogmatic, borderline religious, belief in their wrong id…
Democrats will win the GA runoffs Off the back of that, stimulus and other popular liberal policies will be enacted. And they'll be successful and well-liked.
I also think Joe Biden won't do anything to stop the filibuster.
Jurassic Park will actually open.
- Much, much stronger ties between central europe and china
- Chia will become top 10 crypto
- DNA manipulation will become much bigger
- Facebook will go into proper decline
- Start of the break up of google ad business from google search business
- A few small EU alternative search engines come up
- Battery as a platform continues accelerating - new mobility form factors, battery grid scale storage
- Marketplaces with more than 2 links in the chain start eroding one of the middle links (primary ad channel will connect direct)
- Cross-border payments will become far easier
- Twitter will bring in a bunch of tools to combat toxicity
- So much travel in summer - hotels will have one of their best years ever
- AirBNB stock will do what tesla stock is doing - driven by reddit WSB kids
- Asia will crack down on scammy crypto companies
- MediaSynthesis will advance further - a major new tool that makes it trivially easy
- Google search results will start becoming way better and super personalised as their data efforts start showing results
- OpenStreetMaps will become a serious-serious contender to Google Maps
- Amazon gets into general purpose search?
- SSDs start dominating, NVME becomes standard for new desktops
- Google focuses far more on local, smaller sites to the detriment of big sites. Many well known brands (e.g tripadvisor) lose traffic
- Pinterest gets investigated for finance-related matters
- SARS viruses become the new normal