{"slug": "imagine-telling-someone-in-1999", "title": "Imagine Telling Someone in 1999", "summary": "By 2026, Donald Trump serves a second non-consecutive term as U.S. President, Elon Musk is the world's richest man from rockets, EVs, and AI, Apple's main business is smartphones, and the largest taxi and hotel companies own no vehicles or properties. Media is dominated by social networks, kids earn millions gaming, AI handles writing and coding, and the richest firms sell attention and data—yet everyone still uses Excel.", "body_md": "Imagine telling someone in 1999…\nThe year is 2026.\nThe President is Donald Trump in his second non consecutive term.\nThe richest man in the world is PayPal cofounder Elon Musk… but not because of fintech or Paypal. Because of rockets, electric cars, AI, satellites, brain chips and something called “Boring Company”.\nApple is worth trillions but its main business isn’t computers… its selling glass rectangles everyone stares at for 9 hours a day.\nPeople don’t watch TV. They watch teenagers explain geopolitics, finance, and relationship advice in ~60 second videos.\nThe biggest taxi company owns no taxis.\nThe biggest hotel company owns no hotels.\nThe most powerful media companies are social networks where everyone argues with strangers for free.\nKids are making millions filming themselves playing video games.\nAI Robots write emails, code, legal memos, songs, essays, and breakup texts.\nThe internet is mostly bots arguing with humans who are trying to prove they aren’t bots.\nYou can summon a car, groceries, a doctor, a date, a private jet, or a dog walker from your phone.\nPeople pay real money for invisible currencies, digital monkeys, AI girlfriends and pictures that disappear after 24 hours.\nThe richest companies in the world don’t sell oil, steel, or cars. They sell attention, compute, data, and addiction.\nAnd somehow, after all of that everyone is still using Excel.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/imagine-telling-someone-in-1999", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/JesseTinsley/status/2070306180543500530", "published_at": "2026-06-28 11:43:52+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-28 12:05:25.635014+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-agents", "autonomous-vehicles", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Donald Trump", "Elon Musk", "PayPal", "Apple", "Tesla", "SpaceX", "Boring Company", "Excel"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/imagine-telling-someone-in-1999", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/imagine-telling-someone-in-1999.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/imagine-telling-someone-in-1999.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/imagine-telling-someone-in-1999.jsonld"}}