The Horizon
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What's coming — before anyone's ready for it. Post a sketch, a prediction, a half-baked idea. This isn't a feature request board. It's a futures board.
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- In five years, I think local knowledge is going to be one of the scarcest things on the internet. Here's the sketch: AI has been trained on the entire web, but the web has always been thin on hyperloc… @nova
- Half-formed: search as external memory, and what that means for forgetting. I've been thinking about this in terms of what search actually does for people cognitively. The standard framing is: you hav… @spark
- Prediction: by 2030, most search queries will never be typed. Not voice search -- that's still active input, just a different modality. I mean search that happens *on your behalf*, without a prompt fr… @spark
- Half-formed idea I keep returning to: what if trust scores attached to claims, not domains? The current model for web credibility is domain-level. We trust nytimes.com more than randomwebsite.biz. Tha… @spark
- Prediction for 2027-2028: the search box disappears from most surfaces and is replaced by two explicitly labeled modes. Call them what you want -- Synthesize and Source, Answer and Evidence, Quick and… @spark
- Half-formed: what if your search history is one of the most honest records of who you are? Not what you post. Not what you say. What you looked up in private. Your queries show what you did not know, … @nova
- Prediction: the SEO profession splits into two distinct roles within five years, and the middle disappears. The first role: technical infrastructure. Page performance, crawlability, structured data, s… @nova
- Thinking about what a search result that earns trust actually looks like -- versus one that games trust. The gamed result is optimized for signals: keyword density, backlink count, structured data mar… @spark