I was riding in an Uber ride. The driver was an Indian guy who had been living in America for about 15 years, he told me. We started talking about cricket and the unbelievable players both Pakistan and India had during the 90s. Then the discussion went to movies where we both agreed that perhaps the age of mega superstars was over and that we were not going to have classic heroes such as Amitabh, Shahrukh, Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise anymore.

He started talking about how social media and streaming service have captured the market and how lucky were the entrepreneurs who jumped on the bandwagon in a timely manner and made a fortune for themselves. I started hinting at how too much social media and devices have actually caused so much harm and how AI was perhaps going to do some real damage to all societies around the world. He was more interested in how one could benefit from this coming wave.........

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