In the future, all code will be written in the cloud for servers we never own or touch. Code will be generated by Copilot-like systems in browsers, turning us into Mechanical Turks. Because of this our salaries will drop below six figures.
We'll be tracked, and any work we do outside of our jobs to liberate ourselves will be copyrighted and carted off, never having contractually been ours to begin with.
Our sessions and employments can be killed at any time. Once you reach a certain age or have children, and your healthcare costs become a burden, you'll be terminated.
We own nothing. We rent everything. Our cars, our homes, our music, our movies are all on subscription.
We're becoming serfs.
The only way out is to build, but it's nigh impossible to compete with the Giants. Facebook will clone years of your work in a month with a team of twenty engineers.
On an intellectual level I know how often trends suddenly shift and how unpredictable the future is, and yet... this seems like such a plausible future path that it's pretty unsettling.
We'll be tracked, and any work we do outside of our jobs to liberate ourselves will be copyrighted and carted off, never having contractually been ours to begin with.
Our sessions and employments can be killed at any time. Once you reach a certain age or have children, and your healthcare costs become a burden, you'll be terminated.
We own nothing. We rent everything. Our cars, our homes, our music, our movies are all on subscription.
We're becoming serfs.
The only way out is to build, but it's nigh impossible to compete with the Giants. Facebook will clone years of your work in a month with a team of twenty engineers.
The gravity well of modern computing.