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The year is 2030.
Computers boot directly into the browser. IDEs are just a web app now, running in the GPU. No one knows why. Or how.
All programs run in 4 nested containers on top of a hypervisor abstracting over the 5 major computational clouds. The last time a branch was predicted correctly, in any CPU anywhere, was 4 years ago.
Cloud costs are withdrawn directly from your retirement fund.
Ext7 just came out, it's written in Javascript and uses AI to guess what the file may contain.
@chrisg that future is one I wouldn't want to even contemplate, and am trying to think, as much as possible given the evidence, that it and other such similar scenarios never come to pass. All this free software work, all the cultural shift, people slowly realising what's happening, it can't all be for nothing in the end, hopefully
@chrisg@fosstodon.org@bgtlover Hopefully. The small web "movement" and other similar efforts give me hope, but who knows how things will go.