By Futurist Thomas Frey – Future Startup Models for 2030
When Everyone Lives in Their Own Universe
By 2030, we face a crisis nobody anticipated: reality fragmentation so severe that people occupying the same physical space live in fundamentally incompatible information universes. Not mild political disagreement—complete divergence in basic facts, causal relationships, and what events actually occurred.
AI-powered content personalization, algorithmic echo chambers, synthetic media, and hyper-targeted narratives create billions of individualized reality bubbles. Each person receives information streams so customized that consensus reality—shared understanding of basic facts—collapses.
Families can’t communicate because they literally perceive different worlds. Businesses fail because partners operate from incompatible factual frameworks. Relationships dissolve because couples experience divergent realities making mutual understanding impossible.
Enter Reality Drift Auditors: a new profession ensuring people remain anchored to shared reality in a world of hyper-personalized AI narratives. Let me show you why this becomes essential and what these businesses actually do.
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