⏺Real life will become a "luxury product" — WSJ

The deeper technologies pull us into screens, the more expensive it becomes to escape from them.

A trip to the bar with friends, an evening at the theater, a getaway will turn into an expensive pleasure for the chosen few. There will be few "analog" places left, and they will cost as much as a business-class flight.

There will be no fundamentally new forms of entertainment. People have always wanted one thing — stories, emotions, communication. Only the method of delivery will change. Now the final point is not a screen in front of our eyes, but a direct connection to the brain. Neural implants will include personal AI worlds, where we ourselves will be the main characters of films and games.

This is the main trend for 2046 — not new formats, but total personalization down to the level of neurons. Algorithms that currently steal an hour or two a day will, in 20 years, take all our time entirely and we won’t even notice it.