We are entering a somewhat post-truth era, where it will be impossible to assess whether a thing is true or false based on the attributes of the presentation.

We are entering a somewhat post-truth era, where it will be impossible to assess whether a thing is true or false based on the attributes of the presentation. Back in the day, you could assess from the written language of a non-scientist how knowledgeable they were. No longer. Once you could count on edits to images to be obvious. That's often not the case today. Recently, faked audio recordings of speech were impossible to miss. Now, they are close to undetectable. Video is the last holdout, and that is declining as a source of undeniable truth. I don't know how this is going to play out, but it's going to be a bumpy ride.