Mid budget hasn’t had a place in cinemas since DVDs went out of style. I think that was in the early 2010s.

Hollywood has made the mistake in believing COVID was some kind of reset button on cinemas, when in fact COVID taught people watching movies at home was a better experience for anything except IMAX/VFX blockbusters.

The ideas have always been there, it’s just a bottle neck on cheap electronics and people figuring out the foundation technology. I can’t think of to many tech advancements that have surprised me; that’s not too say they aren’t impressive, but just about anything we can imagine is possible.

The main thing I don’t expect to see is useful and reliable brain/electronics interfaces. I think biology is too unique for an of the shelf product to be possible, which means it’s too hard to make a profitable product.

The Australian government is heavily criticised for half-assing fibre internet because they did copper to the house in most cases. We still, a decade later, have one of the worst internet in the western world.

I think satellites are likely much cheaper to deliver internet to a whole continent than trying to run bloody copper.