yoy.be Welcome to the middle of 2026.

The unimaginable is happening: people stopped searching the web. A decision to open large language models to the broad public has prompted the general populace to accept any answer generated from their unattentatively assembled questions, as the correct answer. Also social media algorithms may have already provided the information a user did not even know they needed, fully devoid of any avenue to verify correctness of said information. The computations are done in data-centers that are straining energy provider infrastructure which pushes consumer prices for electricity up. This demand on infrastructure has increased demand for semiconductors in general, and memory modules in particular, depleting supply and also pushing prices up.

This new framework for 'the Truth' is now expected to be used by more — if not all — people. People are put out of their jobs by the thousands in an expectation artificial intelligence will take over. Education appears to have broken down as work handed in can no longer vouch for the study effort made by the students, perhaps mainly because assignments now also are generated by large language models. Economy, however, dictates that users first and foremost make use of the engine of their company of preference that now mainly expects to get revenue over these interactions. There are only a few of these companies, and since demand is outstripping the supply, prices are going up. Supply fails to grow since energy, hardware and room is unavailable for more datacenters, or may soon become unoffordable.

People in uniform with weapons shooting at each-other in the vicinity of what was one a border-region, is still a thing. Nation-initiatives, both covert and fully in the open, to slowly delete an entire subdivision of the population and its culture, is still a thing. German car-making appears to have a difficult moment, it seems. Television watching has changed. Instead of switching channels, one is supposed to know what to watch and request a download to display immediately. Which has done strange things to the motion picture industry, which already was in disarray by the unsettling adventure of generatively assembled material.

To avoid prices going up, quality has decreased, which has reduced movie theater offerings to super hero movies. International film industry is picking up, though. The real entertainment is currently obtained at the political theatre. We have a year and a half more to go of an orange figure in a top position. Even more detriment to the electoral system may still take place, but approval rating is abismal enough to elicit a benificiary outcome of the next ballot. I am sure the people that are ready to take over are singular in commitment and of one voice.

Talks of organ transplants aside, a current generation of world leaders is expected to move out, as well. We can only hope a new batch will find better sources of motivation than personal gain. Tough times ahead, maybe, but better times are expected beyond that. I envisage a world with international cooperation, respect and nuance from and for everyone, and a new Bretton Woods that restarts a failed economy with a carrier of value that lies much closer to the general public. Why not AI-tokens?