I've been through a hundred note apps, in the end, taking notes is for the brain to help remember. The app is your brain. Generally now, I through stuff in Google Docs and move on. It's searchable, good enough.
The current computing paradigm is all about "data entry", you are your own "sysadmin". Slowly enriching others by working for them. Yes saved time is valuable for you, but also, you create value for "them". We have moved from mainframe to phone with very little design change. The current wave was about convenience. There is a coming wave of redesign that is people centric. Interfaces will be vastly different. This article is just a lack of imagination.
AI drives efficiencies in everything we do; transport, manufacturing, mining, "life", etc. Still, humans are in the middle except, they're doing 100 times more than we do now in similar jobs.
Everyone has to level up in tech skills. Everyone is an AI assistant.
Accelerated urbanization overtakes demographics, US gets 3 parties.
Electrification of everything "around the corner".
Fusion reactors coming online.
Massive processes being tested for decarboning (ex. Vesta).
Remember when everyone laughed because Google was spending millions to recognize cat images?? Autonomous cars will suddenly be ubiquitous, 3 years. Exponential learning.
Hilarious! I remember working on early Unix OS implementations in the 80s. When I saw all the TODOs and NEEDSFIX and WHOKNOWSWHAT I was thinking "How do I make any mods to this?"
They wouldn't buy the advertising if they couldn't make a profit on your attention. Pay with brain space, or pay through a tax. Which is more expensive?
So many news articles start with "the big narrative"™. The authors seem like burgeoning/frustrated writers who are just practicing on us. I skim to get the details and toss all the narrative fluff. So many books are full of this fluff, you have to skim or its boring. The "respect" for the novel is a past time. When everyone can blog/cast/self publish people are not so impressed by the existence of a book. It is taken as a starting point, not a be-all-end-all.