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>the not so far off future
>Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, and the other tech giants have been harvesting user data from free services for many years
>they have now completed a practical map of human nature
>The value of "marketing data" plummets due to diminishing returns since human nature does not change when looked at broadly.
>You need more and more data with greater nuance to make less and less money as years go by.
>The Tech Giants must shift their business model because the product they sell (your data) has become near-worthless and does not offset their operating costs
>the solution: ads and subscriptions
>meanwhile, traditional desktop PCs and laptops become obsolete for the main populace, everything is now running on a walled garden chromebook or iOS style system.
>Tech Giants throw their weight around and get ALL ad-blocking banned from app stores
>The World Wide Web dies as the Internet becomes a series of heavily controlled Apps which target the user to spend as much money as possible
>1 cent per shitpost please
>sites like 4chan as we currently know it die because they must continue to run on the "old" internet outside the walled garden, and teenager and college students will not be regularly accessing it. What is left are the crazies, weirdos, and autists. Discussion comes to a crawl and begins to resemble traditional bulletin boards from the mid 90s. Eternal September ends.
>The net walled garden internet continues to consolidate until only a few apps dominate, almost all of which are based on video content. Television 2.0 becomes reality. Most apps restrict user interactivity in order to reduce the possibility of someone getting offended, which would reduce sales.
>At the same time a few people begin to have fun with the "old" internet again due to rising quality of posts, ease of good information to be found, and better prices.
>"Old" giants of tech such as google move to invest in this "new" sector
>the cycle begins all over again
>Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, and the other tech giants have been harvesting user data from free services for many years
>they have now completed a practical map of human nature
>The value of "marketing data" plummets due to diminishing returns since human nature does not change when looked at broadly.
>You need more and more data with greater nuance to make less and less money as years go by.
>The Tech Giants must shift their business model because the product they sell (your data) has become near-worthless and does not offset their operating costs
>the solution: ads and subscriptions
>meanwhile, traditional desktop PCs and laptops become obsolete for the main populace, everything is now running on a walled garden chromebook or iOS style system.
>Tech Giants throw their weight around and get ALL ad-blocking banned from app stores
>The World Wide Web dies as the Internet becomes a series of heavily controlled Apps which target the user to spend as much money as possible
>1 cent per shitpost please
>sites like 4chan as we currently know it die because they must continue to run on the "old" internet outside the walled garden, and teenager and college students will not be regularly accessing it. What is left are the crazies, weirdos, and autists. Discussion comes to a crawl and begins to resemble traditional bulletin boards from the mid 90s. Eternal September ends.
>The net walled garden internet continues to consolidate until only a few apps dominate, almost all of which are based on video content. Television 2.0 becomes reality. Most apps restrict user interactivity in order to reduce the possibility of someone getting offended, which would reduce sales.
>At the same time a few people begin to have fun with the "old" internet again due to rising quality of posts, ease of good information to be found, and better prices.
>"Old" giants of tech such as google move to invest in this "new" sector
>the cycle begins all over again
