Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?

Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? by IgorPartola on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:18PM (#21942421)

I disagree strongly on number 6. Offliners would be as popular as people who still carry flip phones and lecture you about it. You can’t become mainstream without some kind of media. Vegans talk about veganism all the time on social media. That’s why everyone knows about it.

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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? by verisimilidude on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:59PM (#21942683)

I can easily imagine influencers Instagram-ing about their awesome "offline" lives. You're assuming the offliners are going to be honest about it.

[Edit] Also, I could see being offline becoming a kind of cultural prestige or aspiration, like something only rich people could do by delegating their online presence to hired guns, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? by rikroots on Friday January 03, 2020 @04:26AM (#21944477)

> I could see being offline becoming a kind of cultural prestige or aspiration

This reminds me of the 1970s, when being 'ex-directory' - paying to not have your phone number included in the telephone directory - was seen as cultural prestige.

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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? by TimTheTinker on Friday January 03, 2020 @01:18AM (#21943730)

> You can’t become mainstream without some kind of media.

All it takes is a series of stories about offliners from a couple of major news outlets.

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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? by maxaf on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:51PM (#21942639)

There’s power in negative space. People will maintain meatspace connections that won’t be mirrored online, which will create a sense of mystique and intrigue. People who aren’t immediately connected to off lines IRL will seek them out in a kind of pilgrimage.

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