I think that there are a few issues with these types of articles.

For a start:

1. The world has not fully opened international borders in many countries. This creates shortages of workers in many workplaces where there would be much more skilled migration. This will soon change with an increase the competition as international borders open around the world. An increase in the supply of skilled workers for cheap will place additional pressure on those who want to work from home all the time.

2. The world is not yet done with Covid-19 although it appears that by June 2022 things will most likely be back to a scenario approaching normal with many countries opening up for international travel. Yes there are some restrictions going into Christmas in Europe and a possibility of additional restrictions with masks in USA but by and large, much of the Western countries have been vaccinated.

3. These surveys are going to be bias since you are asking technology professionals who of all jobs are in the best position to do remote work in the first place since their job if doing programming etc can be done from anywhere anyway. However, what about the other workers out there that are not IT based.

Yes many can do work from home and have proven it during the pandemic but human nature is weird. People who run businesses that are not Fortune 500 companies such as small to medium sized businesses have to borrow money from the bank and they want to be looking over the shoulder of their workers. I guess they want to know for sure that their investment in staff is providing them the value that they expect.

Currently these owners have not had a choice but to use remote methods such as Zoom etc, but happens when the pandemic winds down and they have alternative choices? Most workers don't want to go back to the office in these surveys and that's normal but if this survey was down 10 years ago you would likely see the same sentiment. Of-course workers want more flexibility.

4. Office Politics: You will have many who are working from home and that's great for them but if there are other people hanging around the office then they are much more likely to get promoted. Having meetings where some are operating from home and others on-site in the office is not going to be be great.

Pressure will mount on those opting to stay at home. Other will say that if you schedule 3 days at home and 2 days on-site then it will be ok. Yes that could work just fine for many and great if you are in that situation but my bet is that after a while of having a mish-mash of companies using this strategy and others operating full time in the office, I think over time more workers will be forced back into the office full time, 5 days per week.

-There will be exceptions for those in the IT sector and others where it is obvious that there is a monetary benefit of having workers work from home but I I think that as the pandemic winds down, competitive pressures will rear their head again and pressure to return to the office will mount.

5. Despite what I have said above, I think over time (10 year period) there will be a gradual push and realisation that flexible work is the future. So there will be at least a day or two for workers to work from home but I don't think that will occur right away. It's going to be a gradual shift into that direction as increasing automation of workplaces occurs.

Who decides what is 'real' and 'true' news and what is fake?

"Nearly everything we buy, how we buy, and where we're buying from is secretly fed into AI-powered verification services that help companies guard against credit-card and other forms of fraud, according to the Wall Street Journal."

I'm not saying that it isn't "AI-powered", but I am getting a little annoyed at the dilution of the term 'AI' in every MSM tech article. It's getting ridiculous now.

I disagree with Linus.

Being anonymous has benefits. Most people care about their reputation but sometimes the content you want to communicate could be a little controversial but you still want to generate awareness of an issue. This is a usecase where being able to post anonymously can be very beneficial.

Not being able to express an opinion because of a fear of being misrepresented online often leads a person to self-censor and not express their opinion at all.

Exactly right. I live in Australia and they have banned single use plastic bags here as well. Anyway, previously we had used the single use bags for rubbish. Now it's a necessity to buy bags for this same purpose. It's quite annoying.

Westfield shopping centres are big in Australia with lots of anchor stores and smaller stores too.

The point is that if you want to go to one of the anchor stores to browse around at products, you don't want to be carrying around the more durable plastic bags. So when you are ready to go buy groceries, you have to walk back to the car park and fetch your more durable plastic bags to use at the grocery store. It's not the end of the world but it is an added inconvenience. The only other alternative is to buy those durable bags at the grocery checkout but at 15cents per bag it's quite costly depending on how many groceries you intend to purchase.

Perhaps no one is preventing a person from creating their own website and saying what they want. However, being able to have your content 'found' or discovered by people searching for what you want to share can be much more difficult on your personal website, instead of using a platform with millions of users and controls for distributing and sharing your message.

On a centralised platform, it is easier to share content with a lot more people and have it be found and shared with others.

Having said that, the platform defines its own policies, procedures and rules that participants must adhere to if they want to be part of the community.

As much as I donâ(TM)t like it, the future for purchases will all be digital. In China, some places already allow you to make purchases via face recognition.

Combine this with their social credit score and you can see how easy it is to place restrictions on people and what they can buy.

A lot of places have video surveillance but not all of them.

I think this is just another initiative to narrow the field a little to move a small step further to increased tracking of cash purchases. Itâ(TM)s more comprehensive data to sell. Yes it helps the environment a little bit too.

How long to wait for uploaded content to be cross referenced with all created content?

Yes thatâ(TM)s a good point you make and I agree. In practice I donâ(TM)t think it will be possible to cross reference everything before it is uploaded. However when it comes to news websites and images, I do think this is possible. There are probably only about 3000 big mainstream media websites (like CNN or BBC, ABC) etc around the world (pretty sure I read that stat somewhere recently and it was 2400â"Iâ(TM)ll have to recheck this) but the point is that there are relatively few of these big news sites and their media content could be uploaded to databases and compared pretty easily for a large platform like YouTube.

So many of the exact same images in the mainstream media are reused by multiple news networks.

The rest of the content, excluding news websites, may allow you to initially upload it somewhere but then over time a platform could run comparison algorithms with databases specifically created for this purpose by media companies like Disney.

If media companies like Disney have content detected as match, it is either flagged for copyright or automatically deleted from the platform.

Using comparison algorithms, it is possible to pre-filter content that gets uploaded to large platforms like YouTube, etc and have it automatically blocked. So if an image was used to create a meme, it could be cross-referenced with a database and blocked.

To implement a system to do this today may not be cost effective but in 5 years time it could be a lot cheaper with advances in technology and software.

There are all kinds of ways to quickly detect even small parts of copyrighted media now. If something is modified to the extent that it doesn't at all resemble the original content, it could get past these comparison filters.

All of these changes to EU laws will result in censorship. If it's successful in the EU it will spread to all countries.

To be blunt, this all leads to censorship and less ways for people to express their thoughts and opinions on the internet.

Usenet/Newsgroups would be great but it fell away back in the day, I think, due to spam. Now Reddit seems to have taken tts place.

This is a great point that you make about Arcades Vs Home game consoles. I think you are correct and it will depend on how the cinema is able to keep ahead of the home environment in terms of innovation.