The pod people have landed

The changing fortunes of technology can be looked at exactly like the rise and fall of civilisations, and now is the time of the podcast

Allow me to be contrarian and suggest that 2024 was not the year of AI. Instead, for me at least, it was the year of the podcast. That’s partly because I was exposed to AI rather early via Stable Diffusion in 2022, and was bored stiff of it by the end of 2023. But it’s also because online services that had kept me amused for years, including Facebook and YouTube, started sliding down a sloppily slippery slope into irrelevance during 2024. Feeds filled up with unwanted sponsored guff and AI-generated fluff, while real friends abandoned platforms to be replaced by reels and clickbait that spread like digital cockroaches. In response, I began to consume more podcasts. Just as reels were shrinking down to 30 seconds of inane pointlessness, podcasts started…

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