Y’know what? This feels like the most plausible future outcome in a lot of ways.

* All the big LLM companies are dead/dying or their infra just never panned out (like Google killing Gemini)

* We’re still fighting the advertising wars

* Restoration of kit continues to be a thing we all love/upvote to see

* More focus on local stuff rather than ginormous moonshots

* Speaking of moonshots, SpaceX continues succeeding despite Elmo’s best drug-fueled benders trying to undermine it like he does Tesla and X

* Clickbait science posts that the comments rightly point out as such while bitching about “can’t keep these things off the front page”

* People still trying to make WASM and web-as-an-OS a thing, bless their hearts (shine on, you brilliantly weird diamonds, I love seeing what you build even as I doubt the practicality of it)

If this is even half-accurate, I will be pleased we didn’t obliterate ourselves in the process, though disappointed another decade went by dealing with the same fucking problems we’ve had for twenty-odd years.