a graphic of a brain which is half microchip-pattern and the words 'bring brain computer to life'

What do you think the internet will be like in 7 years?

I think the liklihood of increasing climatic and economic disruptions will erode the internet as we know it, leaving a boutique internet for wealthy areas that consist mostly of connectivity for proprietary application suites and their supporting servers and technologies, and a utilitarian, low-power/low bandwith internet for the rest of the world. A digital feudal system of competing platforms that are each their own media ecosystem, communications platform, and ad/propaganda service, and an alternative patchwork system of pirate services that will be criminalized any time they become organized enough to be a threat. The resulting internet of haves and have-nots will constantly be leaking into one another, influencing one another, in an asymmetric tug-of-war between extraction and innovation.

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