Has anyone noticed the content on the internet has got really really boring particularly over the last 2 years? All the once interesting stuff has become sanitised & consolidated, profit-ised to the max. In the podcast space there are perhaps 30 mega podcasters. They’ve essentially became like rehashed early 2000s Network TV again.
I think a totally new kind of platform will emerge/is needed – perhaps it might just be growing craze whereby people go back to physical formats? Perhaps we need a Hologram-Net, which springs up from Zero, & we get a decade of growing & improving content.
Perhaps people will stop using the net entirely? I kinda feel like doing that. The net has made “formerly social people” isolate themselves & made them too lazy to connect in person. Pre internet perhaps 10-25% of us were like that, & that was sustainable – but you can’t have 75-90% of people being like that….it’s destroying humanity! I fear that Bukowski’s predictions about this in the early 90’s has become true…where the ‘normal people’ start behaving like artists, only they never create any art…WE ARE AT THAT POINT NOW…..
The question is:
“Can a totally new medium of communication be allowed to be created – or are we only going to have inferior rehashes with poor & disappearing popularity & reach??? Or are we stuck with the TV-ised Internet/Podcast world of 2025 forever??”
Would be interesting to hear readers thoughts on it all….
Anton Martin Smith Writer 