Today in Wired, forecasting for how we’ll use technology in 2025.
‘In 2025, we… also carve out our own human spaces using some of the newest social media tools available. Our research indicates that alongside the influencers and micro-celebrities that dominate your TikTok and YouTube feeds are millions of video makers who don’t want to go viral.
‘Instead, they’re making short videos for family and friends, subverting the recommendation algorithms, and using social media… to maintain social ties.’
–Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/optimize-for-authentic-voices-in-a-sea-of-ai-search-spam/
Form ever follows function
Maybe these days, people want less stuff and more genuine connexion. Less is more. Being real matters. That’s good it’s making a comeback after all the internet celebrity hype, the crashing down of things and rediscovery of simpler ways of relating–to just the ones who matter most.
I’ll try this in my own way with Mirror.