(originally published Jan 9, 2025 - so, did it all fall down? Is the YouTube short still a thing?)
2026 is the year the internet dies.
As legacy media fades into the distance of the receding past, people who now denounce "mainstream news" as fake or untrustworthy, will come to know that their favorite fringe sites, and their "alternative" news is what's actually fake. But instead of changing their minds and either moving to resurrect the old ways, or searching out credible new sources of information, they'll just dismiss it all as totally unreliable - and the entire internet will implode, grinding The Information Age to a halt.
Seems a bit silly, but hey - ya heard it hear first, kids.
I didn't know when in 2026, Dr Tyson meant, so here it is, about the time we start to gear up for the 2026 mid-terms - assuming we still have elections.
This is really scary, typing this in January 2024, under what most people think are credible threats to American democracy, and the free flow of information.
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