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Yeah I'd give FTA another decade, 2 max. Now I think about it this is kinda worrying tho, at least on FTA everyone sees the same broadcast. If everyone's streaming and each user's stream could be individually selected or even tampered with [deepfakes?] the problems we have at the moment with people living in different 'realities' could get a lot worse. I'm not saying that's gonna happen, but interesting things happen when powerful entities have access to technology like that.
Already has I think. Especially with tools like radar/sonarr/jellyfin that let you "follow" tv series/movies and automatically download them as they become available and put them into your own personal "Netflix" style media server. Piracy now is better than ever.
It's naive to think the model will die. In fact it's merely getting new operators and beneficiaries in the form of Google, Disney, Warner, etc.
The state and commerce will always vie and co-operate for control of the public's media access and consumption patterns, with an eye to market captivity.
More realities is better. Or ideally we would do away with the concept of reality altogether and just have unreal worlds.
If you're uncomfortable with people being in different realities you just have to practice planeswalking more. It's not hard. Diversity is good actually. Letting Capital have absolute control over the means of reality is bad.
Diversity is good individually, helps us form balanced opinions. But having radically polarised individuals, with diverse and different views is bad for social harmony.
For the last 500 years, "harmony" meant everyone does things the way white people do it. It meant bringing the monarchy to Australia, binary gender to Thailand, slavery to America, christianity to Colombia, oil rigs to the middle east, and a lot of other bad stuff. I think it was better to have a lot of different consensus realities across the world, instead of one homophobic capitalist christian white supremacist consensus reality.
The modern phenomenon of conspiracy theories and echo chambers is just a symptom of consensus reality breaking down as it fails to meet everyone's needs, and they look elsewhere. It's an unstable, dangerous state, brought on by unstable, dangerous consensus reality. It wouldn't have got this bad if it weren't for the genocide of indigenous realities.
In a perfect world I would agree with you.