31 Netizens Share What They Consider To Be Next Big Changes In The Culture Of The Internet

Everyone will have seen everyone else naked (via deepfakes, OF, or hacking).

So many dooming posts here. Sheesh. Haha

Honestly? My guess is you’d have to treat it like a living organism that is constantly learning. Mankind will continue to impart our knowledge into it until the internet becomes obsolete.

From that standpoint, it’ll grow, evolve, and form new adaptations for mankind to make lives easier. Maybe like, integration into synthetic biologics for remote monitoring and immediate medical interventions.

Maybe something better than the internet will come along, at which point it either becomes a new type of phone book, or an archive of historical knowledge.

In the immediate future, I’d put my long-term money on augmented reality. The possibilities there seem endless. From marketing, entertainment, and education, to communication, social networking, remote work, bla bla bla.

Gonna need lots of the ol interwebs for that.

I have thought about this for years. I always thought it was important to have three types of Internet connection personas.

The first being a verified identity where you can take care of official business and any transactions where it is important where your identity is known. This is inspired by the way Debian Linux developers are verified

Second is similar to how many sites do now. Pick a username, email address and password for that site. We already see pros and cons now. Each site does not keep our data very secure, but it is convenient for many interactions.

Third is pure anonymous connection. Each connection is a throw away username. While 4chan types may thrive and it may be have a seedy underbelly, there are some really good reasons to be anonymous on the Internet. If you are doxxed, it is because you let too much personal information to be known or someone you know and trust f***s you.

Other things that need creative solutions:

Advertisement for free access to sites is a plus and minus. This is what is driving much of the negativity on the Internet. Algorithms are built to keep your eyes on their page for ad dollars or sales. Propaganda and criminal activity drive many bots. I am not sure how to break the information silo effect. SEO is big big business.

It would be digital privacy renaissance: Blockchain, encryption, and anonymity I think.

Generative A.I. to design prompts for generative A.I.

Ai everywhere. Influencers everywhere with more ad inundations directly speaking to you. Dialogue from ads that speak directly to you. Annoying advertising like we have never seen before. Influencers pushing their ai music and ai films and commercial products. Every aspect of every text you ever typed, every word uttered will be stored upon and ai constantly telling you how much of a hypocrite you are with receipts.

Hollywood with a power like never before. An inundation of s**t to an extreme like we haven’t seen. Eventual ip rights from actors will cave for ai reproduction and the streaming services will have all their exclusive ip that paying subscribers can only use to generate ai films with ip.

A boom in reality television like we have never seen before because real people will be desired more and the content of narratives would retain ai for budgets with hipster nepo babies filming real people for their art house films.

Continued sanctuary for people who slept through English and debate classes and are possibly all related.

People will tag every social media post with anything that might trigger people. Or, posts that are jokes will be expected to have something like a "/s" tag.

I predict that in the future the words “internet” and “culture” will never be used in close proximity.

The skibbidi toilet generation is gonna ruin the internet with pathetic memes that arent even funny.

Lots of bots/AI yelling at each other.

I honestly think we are heading for a social media reckoning that is years overdue. We really need to quash the rampant misinformation and I do think that the younger generations are better at spotting all the BS. I still can't believe how bad it got in the mid-late 10s tho.

One of the reasons I like Reddit so much is it reminds me of the old IGN forums before social media really went crazy. I honestly think ppl are sick and tired of the big platforms like FB and Twitter. Zucc diversified Meta so it'll stick around but the dumpster fire that is twitter is only going to keep burning hotter till its gone as long as musk owns it and honestly at this point I don't see any saving it.