That sweeeeet 30% cut from the AppStore (sure, sure, alternative payment systems are allowed for now, but this can change).

Sounds like cope.

The next 18 months will bring wonders and horrors, the timeline is open but the conclusion is the same.

Intelligence will be commoditized.

They voted for AI and automation to wipe out office work?

Eh. Still pretty stereotypical, even with a freaking secret Nazi base.

That's legacy Fox, with the Marvel label slapped on. The original Deadpool would never have gotten made inside of Disney proper.

From the article:

"U.S. public companies have cut their white-collar workforces by 3.5% over the past three years"

I'm sorry, who was President during that time?

These are permanent structural changes, a long time in coming. Predicted by many and blown off by many more.

The problem with a "knowledge economy" is that automation can basically take over 95 percent of it. You need a balance of services and manufacturing and agriculture, and the first world knowledge economies have been outsourcing the later two to cheaper third world countries and teaching their youth that getting their hands dirty is beneath them. Anytime someone brings up plumbing or welding or some construction work, there's a group here that always responds with "Back-breaking! No! Undignified!".

Fine. So starve then. You're not getting your UBI or a lifetime welfare state. So I suggest you learn a skill that can't be replaced with a glorified Google script, or hope your parents have saved enough money to support you on their couch while you protest the indignities of spreading drywall or operating a backhoe.

You also forget the classic: "Oh, I have that superpower, but I'm also an angsty teenager that needs to impress his girlfriend". Or the eternal: "I retired because I think superhero powers are unethical, but now the Universe needs me to un-retire".

I'd love to see a movie set in the Sanderson's Reckoners universe. It's a universe where the super-heroes (called "epics") are actively evil.

They should just stop doing the superhero crap. It's boring, you can play that only a few times before you start repeating the same tropes over and over again. It's just basically Greek god stories but with the modern entourage.

Shut up, Ryan.

Just about any newspaper or news network site now is either paywalled, or a defacto browser hijacker that floods you with pop-ups, videos, and subscription requests as soon as you enter.

Apparently, nobody really noticed that. I mean, why would you check the expiration date on a patent in Canada? Surely, a company like Novo Nordisk wouldn't neglect to pay the maintenance fee?

Nobody wants to wear shit on their face or have another device to charge.

Money down the drain, but itâ(TM)ll be funny to watch again.

It's still a method to pay for illegal porn and drugs?

Why do 30 years of government service not count as actual qualifications and, you know, work experience?