Credible neutrality is dependability. It means a stakeholder (e.g a user or a developer) can use or build on a protocol with confidence it will not change against their interests. Protocols remain credibly neutral by avoiding "capture" by any particular group.
Subscriptions or advertising. The pivot to paid is overall a healthy trend for many publishers, but subscriptions aren’t a savior. Ads still have a role, sometimes as the main plank of media business models. The success of Axios, Morning Brew and Dotdash prove that. And ads can work with subscriptions -- look at the success Bloomberg is having in... See more
All elevators, doors, faucets, and handles will go to voice or gesture based activation as standard.
The technology now exists for hands-free everything. This is going to be hygiene 2.0 across society, at least in Asia.
That means a significant portion of new free and paid subscriptions are coming from readers who discovered your writing through the Substack ecosystem.