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IaC engineers are laid off en masse.
(EDIT: I am an IaC engineer who is learning Python and NodeJS as much as I can before this sort of thing is released in AWS.)
1. A breakthrough in "deepfake voice" is made that can emote convincingly. It is used to add Marilyn Monroe or James Dean to a TV show or movie. A US supreme court challenge to the admissibility of audio recordings is begun, after a murder case is thrown out due to evidence being shown to be an audio deepfake. 2. A single climate catastrophe-linked weather event causes tens of thousands of deaths. Governments pledge…
AI: - Composable language models will allow millions of people to collaborate on building/training AI without needing unusual GPUs or supercomputers - Large numbers will be prime factored using guesses generated by giant "AI" statistical models. No one will understand why it works. - The internet is flooded with AI generated non-sense - Search engines are forced to limit the sites they search to ones with verified hu…
- A series of videos will be released purportedly showing a set of prominent and wealthy US individuals arranging to have their own children genetically engineered for greater intelligence and height. These videos will seam to show that at least one US billionaire believes in eugenics. The New York times will cite expert analysis claiming these videos are deep fakes. A large portion of the population will believe they are real.
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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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…
> 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…
But, collapse completely is a bit extreme.
Mostly web, as that's my area of expertise. - Start of the movement from cloud/SaaS computing/storage to edge devices/client-side/on-prem. - Amount of new successful SaaS orgs will decimate. The only 2 SaaS markets that will grow will be highly vertical/specialized or very big orgs offering commodity. They both will use value based pricing, but for the first growth will be sales-led and prices will be high, and the s…
Has already been tried:
1. Chat GPT3 or Similar Tech Enabled Personalised Social Engineering Attacks From Stolen Data. 2. A new social network will rise that will have an explosion of reels made from Stable Diffusion tech. 3. Apple creating a dedicated program to encourage developers to build apps leverage M1/M2s GPU Capabilities. 4. Reserve Bank of India creating a CDBC enabled savings account program to allow citizens to hold money withou…
It's very interesting to go to last year's predictions ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746236 ) and search for the word "Russia".
Early 2022 the fears of Russia invading were real. They were downplayed and not talked about much in the mainstream but come January many already saw what Russia was up to. Mostly it’s just that many of us, Ukrainians included (I speak from personal experience - I have Ukrainian close relatives), closed our eyes to Russia actually pulling the trigger. It is just unthinkably stupid and so, so disgusting. That said, th…
- 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. Crypto mostly dead.
- Tom Brady Super Bowl MVP.
- Salesforce buys the remnants of Twitter.
- Toyota buys the remnants of Tesla.
- Lockheed and Northrop buy the remnants of SpaceX.
- Meta buys the remnants of the Boring Company.
- Cocoa shortage causes global civil unrest.
- Amazon forks Chromium and releases their own browser. Requires Prime subscription.
- NATO directly intervenes in Ukraine and pushes Russia out. WW3 trends on Mastodon.