Content explosion, how creators can break through

41. The next 25 years will be an era of content explosion, an era that will continue the information explosion, content super prosperity, and increasingly popular personalized creation of the past 20 years.
42. AI will directly affect the publishing industry. With the popularization of powerful AI assistants, people can let AI assistants read all books. Because it knows users very well, it can find the most novel part of each book for users in the process of interacting with users and recommend it to users.
43. The book of the future will be a large collection of human knowledge. Books can be connected to each other. Each book has a variety of hyperlinks, connecting all knowledge to form a Meta text/Mega text, like a “general book”, a book that brings together human wisdom.
44. In the next 25 years, Hollywood will be subverted again. Hollywood movies require huge investment, and AI will make the presentation of movies easier. Everyone can become a screenwriter and director. In the future, one-person movies and fan movies will become very popular.
45. In the future, AI may lower the threshold of various creations/manufacturing. In the future, people like Jobs and Musk will appear in more fields, because excellent ideas and crazy ideas will be easier to realize.
46. For creators, there are two key points: first, do yourself well, be driven by interest rather than simply by profit, and concentrate on doing what you are interested in and good at; second, find fans who really like you and are willing to support you, which requires a large enough audience and a better matching mechanism, and of course more communication and a certain amount of luck.
47. The mirror world will more efficiently match high-quality content with interested users. People all over the world are potential audiences, and the long-tail effect of communication will be very obvious. Of course, the mirror world will also retain a lot of randomness and contingency, bringing surprises to creators and fans.
48. In the mirror era, there is another field that will usher in a big explosion, that is, digital virtual people. In 25 years, everyone can create a realistic digital virtual person based on themselves.
49. When AI is widely used, we need to redefine reality. It will change the standard of “seeing is believing” that we have formed in the era of mass media. The various deep fakes that appear in the AI ​​era require us to check every source of information. We have to assume that the photos or videos we see are fake until we can prove that they are real.