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The future of entertainment

 It's funny.  I always thought the future would end up being something more akin to Bandersnatch .  Some form of interactive television with CYOA elements.  This I didn't see coming at all. Some of the potential was apparent with Nothing, Forever originally an AI generated infinitely generated show with some inspiration from Seinfeld's infamous show about nothing. While I'm not sure we'll ever know whether it was the show itself or the waiting for the AI to make a mistake and reveal itself to be sentient that drove viewership we'll never truly know. When there was a misconfiguration and the filters that kept the show friendly was left unchecked it created a gap which others were happy to move into. And many did.  There are all sorts of shows that stepped up to the plate to see if they could hit a home run during Nothing, Forever's forced hiatus.  Some had this aspect or that aspect that made them very cool.  ShowDojo's infinitely generated talking mea...