Society will continue regressing towards the mean of the last few thousand years. Less American exceptionalism, more serfdom and misery. Maybe polio will make a come back!
Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
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#22AI Investments will slow down. A bit out there but I will go on a limb :)
It's not just a bit out there; it's completely antithetical to what we're seeing in the data.
Re: Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
#23I will start off with an uncommon one: Gambling addiction in kids is through the roof, sports betting, crypto betting, csgo skin betting. These are being openly advertised and we will start seeing the first major push towards stopping some of them. Some of the owners of the most uncommon Counterstrike skin gambling sites are making about $50 million a month.
> Gambling addiction in kids is through the roof, sports betting, crypto betting, csgo skin betting
Hopefully content creators will get persecuted for selling crypto pump and dump schemes towards kids.
Re: Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
#24The decline continues but steeper.
Market instability
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#25I'm going to get older and gain weight.
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#26Predictions from 2008:
National Intelligence Council/Director of National Intelligence - Global Trends 2025
https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Reports%20and%2...
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#28Google will announce new products (will call them initiatives) and will not launch them to the general public. ChatGPT Search will get significant (high 1 digit) share of the search market.
I'll bandwagon on chat.com getting 10% or higher marketshare. Look back at Google search's 800 number; https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/12/google-kills-sms-search/ (the only article I could find). We're at that stage of chat.com going mainstream. Already chat.com is a better experience for finding local shops and restaurants.
ChatGPT voice mode was surgically amazing while driving. I had a personal assistant refining criteria to find the perfect shop to find the gift I wanted that was open and on my way to my destination.
I don't think there is a moat for search given the power of AI tools.
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#29Dopamine management medication will lead to a renaissance of human ingenuity and scientific discoveries and a big crash for social media and gambling sites (and in fact most online activities) but everyone will start becoming more robotic and even less social. Think GLP-1 inhibitors except for thinking more deeply and for longer periods. If not 2025 very soon.
Very cool prediction, but is there anything like this actually coming down the pipe?
Re: Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
#30Someone here will enter 2024 on a form that requires the date.