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IMO 3 things can happen in the future: 1) New media becomes the elite's puppet just like old media. 2) New technology will disrupt and destroy old and current
by devoply 10y ago
IMO 3 things can happen in the future:
1) New media becomes the elite's puppet just like old media.
2) New technology will disrupt and destroy old and currently new media and create decentralized social media where fake news will be the norm and the elites will lose control of information.
3) New uncensored platform appears to appeal to a general need of people wanting to see what they want to see which again reopens the debate.
The first is more likely than the second. But for the first time in a very long time the second option has a chance.
- sametmax 10y ago1) it's already the case. PR firms have created many credible user accounts in most social media, maintain them for a long time, and now use them to influence it on day to day basis. I bet even HN has some of those. 2) already the case. it's called world of mouth. we just use technology to propagate it now. We never had so many chat apps, social networks, content sharing services, etc. 3) this I want to happen, but every attempt is not only hard to use, but also used for very illegal/immoral stuff that makes it the target of regulations, preventing it from becoming popular. And even if it ever reach popularity, it can cross a threshold making it full of trash like the previous medium, and we would have to restart again. Maybe we should create a system that is hard to get it, to prevent people that are not interested enough to come and trash it.