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I'm not a fortune teller and bad at prediction. Pretty much this gemlog will be wrong after a while. But I can't resist letting my stream of consciousness go.
When I see something like gemini appear, I know it's the peak of the Web, or the peak is somewhat in 2000s or 2010s, this is just the remnants, whatever.
No "useful" information is being produced anymore. Or at least, the established modern web created a suppressive environment for useful information.
The "content creators" have created a dedicated realm of information that people can dive in it all day and still not enough. But even if you are able to consume all of the content generated in a day, either by creators or bots and the algorithms, it's not gonna improve anything an lead you to anywhere. Lemme get this straight, living in that realm, consuming these kind of information, will neither launch rocket nor cure cancer. (If you want to debate the function of the web is not for those things, keep it for yourself, who cares)
But let's cut it off. The main part is that the technology also adapt for the fused realm between society and information too. You can name it all day: big tech, algorithm, ads, trackers, etc… It's not solely *social* nor *informational*, it was ill-defined from the beginning, because those are both halves of the story, we're dealing with mainly the new realm.
So it doesn't matter what's in the future, a Javascript engine written in Rust/Zig/Nim/V/enter-your-crazy-laguage-here, better GDPR, fight against Google Manifest V3, QUIC, HTTP3, policies, laws, free license, permissive license, etc… NOTHING. MATTER. The socio-informational realm have nailed development there, and everything build on top of it will hold it in this neo-Medieval.
I can't tell if gemini will be a place with information actually matter. Or it's just the impression imprinted to people who have live through the 90s, and the neo-Medieval realm is actually useful for the current generation. One thing I suspect is that effort to escape the cyberpunk will increase in the future, be it gemini or anything, human intuition may tell that there's something outside that blue pill.
Or not at all. The fitness curve may drive the evolution from social network toward the cryptocurrency maximum. The current economy is bad, the crypto-based economy is not better. Does humanity ever have any period making thing better? The industrialization vs. the environment. The colonization vs. the genocide of ethnicities. Are we just getting richer during the last minute of the Mass Suicide?