The next trend IMHO will be apps and interfaces for whatever replaces websites over the next 5 years. Whether that's API layers for systems to communicate with each other, "SEO" for chatbots, whatever CMSs will morph into, etc. remains to be seen. Websites (in the 90s/2000s sense of the word) are clearly on the way out, but it's unclear what exactly will replace them.
Either scenario seems unlikely to me and I've seen no proof we're trending that way.
> a web where every site has the exact same structure and aesthetic, like a Finder window in macOS, and only the data is different?
That "finder window" is Google AI search responses or Google Business listings or Perplexity or Facebook or LinkedIn.
These "websites" are being generated by platforms in real-time. There are billions of people on the internet -- are they mostly going to websites or are they going to platforms, and which direction do you forecast their behavior will trend going forward?
Some sort of quantum computing hype feels inevitable at some point.
The return of the revenge of wearables.
Biotech, again.
After all that, we'll probably be ready for another AI bubble, as is traditional (there tends to be one every couple of decades).
Hyper-comercialization of music, social media, influencers, marvelification of movies, etc…
Feels very saturated and overproduced at the moment
I wouldn’t be suprised if in the coming decades the pendulum will swing towards more a cultural trend of minimalism and authenticity as a reaction to that
Which is basically like a clergyperson and their flock without the religious context.
Interesting how things come full circle and are the same but different.
Apps that respond to video ads by calling/messaging the sponsor CEO and the media company CEO with the audio of the ad.
- Resurgence of crazed AR/VR games like 'Pokémon Go'
