The prophecies always were about water stress and food security. How that plays out, I don't know.
If it's anything like the recent energy spikes it means burdening future generations of wealthy countries with subsidised amenities while others go without.
DDG used to have a graph showing the number of queries they did daily. It was around 100 million searches a day before they removed it a few years back. They were receiving bad press at the time IIRC.
An educated guess is they're doing a similar number of searches today.
Yuck indeed. I do find it offensive when someone uses AI in a conversational manner. It's one thing to use it to chuck up content on social media to attract eyeballs, but this is a forum intended for conversation.
Not too dissimilar to googlewhacking where you'd aim to be the only result for a search query on Google.
And in a more indirect way, spamming Google's autosuggest feature to shape what people search for, though that perhaps is more open to factual/real-world information.
I live in his hometown, thankfully a large chunk of the population has been aware of his story since the late 80s. He's an extremely eloquent person and has worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the condition.
Fair enough. It's a reasonable expectation of someone that enabled Google maps 15 years ago that enables Gemini 6 months not to understand the fundamentals of how Google treats their keys. If it wasn't explained on the enabling Gemini screen, what do you expect the user to do.
I was thinking more localised. When legislation changes happened (here in the UK) the problem disappeared quickly. The UK being an industrialised country in the context of the parent comments.