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2024: a post-industrial dystopia where the global economy runs on a cryptocurrency called 'Bitcoin', people wear computers on their faces and the Wall Street Jo

by jval 12y ago

2024: a post-industrial dystopia where the global economy runs on a cryptocurrency called 'Bitcoin', people wear computers on their faces and the Wall Street Journal has been reduced to reprinting tweets as news.

catshirt 12y ago
the only real prediction here is that bitcoin will be a standard global currency :)
- ChrisGaudreau 12y ago
  Pretty sure that honor goes to Dogecoin, but nice try. :)
  - leoc 12y ago
    Everywhere you go, the face of the Leader placed high on giant placards and banners...
  - paul_f 12y ago
    Nah, it will be a competition between GoogBucks and iMoney. With Google eventually winning. They always do.
    - gress 12y ago
      They'll win, but they won't make any money from it and nobody else will. This will keep happening with industry after industry, until there is nobody to buy advertising from Google. Then society will fall.
apu 12y ago
the Wall Street Journal has been reduced to reprinting tweets as news Why 2024? I've already seen this happening for the last few years, where the established press takes original content/reporting/etc. from online sources (blogs/etc.) with scant attribution.
- vidarh 12y ago
  I particularly "love" [1] articles where they take screenshots of a bunch of tweets, and present them with interspersed commentary, rather than actually writing a coherent narrative. Guess it makes it easier to recruit "journalists" when you don't need to worry about whether most of them finished high-school. [1] for certain values of "love"
  - mjcohen 12y ago
    I often enjoy these kind of articles, especially when the interpolated comments give me information and ways to look at things I did not previously have.
benjamincburns 12y ago
You missed out on so many upvotes by not going with 2048...
declan 12y ago
Good line! But in reality -- speaking as a former journalist and a founder of a new SF bay area startup that's in the same business -- news organizations have done this kind of thing forever. One journalistic function is ingesting a tremendous amount of information, then filter it -- so people reading the WSJ's venture capital blog can bookmark it and read only articles that are relevant. A generation ago it might have been highlighting the best news stories in the trade press. Today it's subscribing to the Twitter feeds of dozens or hundreds of VCs (including Marc A.). Highlighting the best ones provides a valuable service. Of course the HN-relevant question then becomes: can this be better done, or equally well done for less $$$, algorithmically. :)

by jval 12y ago

catshirt 12y ago

the only real prediction here is that bitcoin will be a standard global currency :)

ChrisGaudreau 12y ago
Pretty sure that honor goes to Dogecoin, but nice try. :)
- leoc 12y ago
  Everywhere you go, the face of the Leader placed high on giant placards and banners...
- paul_f 12y ago
  Nah, it will be a competition between GoogBucks and iMoney. With Google eventually winning. They always do.
  - gress 12y ago
    They'll win, but they won't make any money from it and nobody else will. This will keep happening with industry after industry, until there is nobody to buy advertising from Google. Then society will fall.

apu 12y ago

the Wall Street Journal has been reduced to reprinting tweets as news Why 2024? I've already seen this happening for the last few years, where the established press takes original content/reporting/etc. from online sources (blogs/etc.) with scant attribution.

vidarh 12y ago
I particularly "love" [1] articles where they take screenshots of a bunch of tweets, and present them with interspersed commentary, rather than actually writing a coherent narrative. Guess it makes it easier to recruit "journalists" when you don't need to worry about whether most of them finished high-school. [1] for certain values of "love"
- mjcohen 12y ago
  I often enjoy these kind of articles, especially when the interpolated comments give me information and ways to look at things I did not previously have.

benjamincburns 12y ago

You missed out on so many upvotes by not going with 2048...

declan 12y ago

Good line! But in reality -- speaking as a former journalist and a founder of a new SF bay area startup that's in the same business -- news organizations have done this kind of thing forever. One journalistic function is ingesting a tremendous amount of information, then filter it -- so people reading the WSJ's venture capital blog can bookmark it and read only articles that are relevant. A generation ago it might have been highlighting the best news stories in the trade press. Today it's subscribing to the Twitter feeds of dozens or hundreds of VCs (including Marc A.). Highlighting the best ones provides a valuable service. Of course the HN-relevant question then becomes: can this be better done, or equally well done for less $$$, algorithmically. :)