FutureCult

The future is on deep discount

Demonstrating how to produce at-best-questionable-fiction and at worst advice that will get you fired, sued, or killed, many LLM "experts" are happy to tell you with authority how to let software do maximum damage to your life...
www.linkedin.com/posts/conorg...

#9. Putting individuals at the ❤️ of healthcare

"By 2025, the lines separating culture, information technology and health will be blurred"

AI + sharing economy + real-time biological data has clearly decreased morbidity, mortality and costs across the globe. Why else is Luigi Mangione a folk hero?

AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change The tech giants both report surges in greenhouse gas emissions as they double-down on adding artificial intelligence to all of their products.

#16: ML & AI expedite decarbonization in carbon-heavy industries

The good news? The author got an exit to Johnson Controls making smart building IoT devices in 2022.

The bad news? We've blown past 1.5°C. And most tech, including AI, stands to create as many new problems as it attempts to solve.

#13: Closing the wealth gap

A fintech CEO promises a more equitable 2025 through financial planning AI bots available to all.

Just don't ask how a Bolivian farmer banking $350 a year is catching up to Elon by using an AI bot run by other billionaires. Clearly he's in on a secret they don't know.

And the hits keep coming.

#7: grocery retail robotics CEO proclaims we will be drowning in hyper-local robots in our grocery stores in 2025.

As self-checkout struggles:
www.bbc.com/worklife/art...
…Takeoff Technologies now seems to have a “404”k retirement plan:
www.grocerydive.com/news/takeoff...

We're 100% sure that 73% of "executives" don't understand the difference between ChatGPT and Google Search, let alone being able to define GenAI.

The gap between potential and reality is vast and widening. This isn't a business prediction as much as naive aspiration.

Swing and a miss PwC!

Future shocks: 17 technology predictions for 2025 We asked our 2020 intake of Technology Pioneers for their views on how technology will change the world in the next five years. Here are their predictions.

"The Future Ain't What It Used to Be", 2025 Edition
Thanks, WEF!: www.weforum.org/stories/2020...

Let's start with #2: "In 2025, carbon footprints will be viewed as socially unacceptable, much like drink driving is today"

Who of us isn't melting glaciers with chatGPT to solve the Sunday crossword?

Greeting from the future.

Also, a request from the future:
Can you please tidy up a bit?
Things smell a little funky here.