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Nothing is where I expect it in my kitchen.

Probably "AI". It's not actual like AI in films , but it is a great program that can analyze human language and extrapolate pretty interesting data from a wide variety of sources, then reformulate that data into a human language that is concise and useful. I am personally excited about the prospect of a personal AI that can run locally or in a truly private cloud services that can learn my speech, my habits, my interests, etc and be ready to provide me with customized data from the Internet or from it's observation of me.

It's a double edge sword though. While a tool like this should be used to discover more truth about the world we live in, there will be many bad actors trying to use it to manipulate and lie to achieve their nefarious goals. AI will also need to be trained to detect when something is fake, and I feel that this will become a never ending arms race.

And let's be honest, there a majority of people out there that don't want to take the time to figure out something new, and something that has some slight learning curve up front.

The fediverse as a concept is very different than the internet as it is now. The last 15 years feels like a slow slow consolidation of all the sites that rely on user generated content. Now that federated user content sites exist, people will need learn how it all works.

There's another aspect I haven't really considered until now. A lot of the sites that have user generated content spoon feed their users content they think they will be interested in. Reddit at least had a subscription model where you hand pick the communities you want, and the community curates the content you see.

There's a lot of stuff at play here, and I am very excited to see how it all unfolds for Kbin and Lemmy. Great tools will be adopted by great communities, even if they don't reach massive popularity.

What, you never had Nintendo Power growing up?