Probably an increased acceleration of online dogpiling and brigading against "bad opinions" and other witch hunting nonsense. Probably to the point of being state sanctioned. Basically think of the UK police today, times 10 in ridiculousness.
Media and entertainment will continue to spiral into increasingly meaningless slop, intended to push political agenda and narrative. Most forms of indie or self publishing for any kind of product or content will eventually be nullified by red tape and automated shadow banning. Web hosting and any kind of web-based distribution of information, art, or ideas will be gated and corporatized.
Any digital communication methods will be automatically censored at the device level and/or through external automated AI-checking. And all infractions will be monitored and tracked for some form of penalty (social credit score type stuff, loss of access to the Internet, etc).
Pay be the hour for Internet access might even return too.
More realistically though, I think we're going to see a final showdown regarding private ownership and control/access of digital devices. And it's not going to be especially one-sided.
My more cynical guesses:
Probably an increased acceleration of online dogpiling and brigading against "bad opinions" and other witch hunting nonsense. Probably to the point of being state sanctioned. Basically think of the UK police today, times 10 in ridiculousness.
Media and entertainment will continue to spiral into increasingly meaningless slop, intended to push political agenda and narrative. Most forms of indie or self publishing for any kind of product or content will eventually be nullified by red tape and automated shadow banning. Web hosting and any kind of web-based distribution of information, art, or ideas will be gated and corporatized.
Any digital communication methods will be automatically censored at the device level and/or through external automated AI-checking. And all infractions will be monitored and tracked for some form of penalty (social credit score type stuff, loss of access to the Internet, etc).
Pay be the hour for Internet access might even return too.
More realistically though, I think we're going to see a final showdown regarding private ownership and control/access of digital devices. And it's not going to be especially one-sided.