What the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV considers as the 'yammerings' of this one 'futurologist' downplaying the importance of AM radio and also ostensively attacking AM's coalition of the faithful comes across to him as astroturf. It sounds to him something like someone is paid to say as a fake 'equal time' to a point of view some commercial interests worry as enjoying majority support. However, to the futurologist's credit, TSV did -not- hear anything to the effect of, well why would today's teenagers looking at 5 videos at once on Tiktok while filtering themselves with dog noses and dog ears should even care there was -ever- a thing called AM radio? That doesn't matter, because, yes, someone -is- going to ask that question, and TSV considers it to be just as replete with logical fallacies as the futurologist's comments. Now here's TSV breaking down those fallacies. When the futurologist claims that he did not hear any emergency information on maybe a non-representative straw poll of AM stations he tuned to, he may very well have picked out those stations -least likely- to do so outside of EAS, because they're not necessarily newsradio stations. There are also sports, religious, gospel, talk, cultural and even still the occasional music/various station. A lot of the cultural ones are not even in the futurologist's native language of English. There are Spanish and Hindi and Mandarin stations, so how's an English native speaking futurologist supposed to know when an announcement in Spanish somehow doesn't count as an emergency bulletin just because he doesn't understand the language? They're not always going to preface such a bulletin in Spanish with 'Hay una emergencia,' and TSV doubts the futurologist knows enough Spanish to know how that translates into English. As for a number of the stations being 'automated,' he depicts the automation per se as somehow being the same thing as being incapable of putting out emergency information. Some degree of automation on both AM and FM (not to mention Sirius-XM -and- Internet radio) has been around for decades, so if TSV gets the impression that the futurologist is expecting that it -has- to be like how they did it in the 30s 40s and 50s, TSV does not consider that realistic. While TSV also wants to question the very concept of 'futurology' as necessarily a valid science, it's more of a priority for him to point out that radio's death has been predicted ever since TV started showing up in people's homes, and it's still there today. People also predicted the death of newspapers and vinyl records, but they too are still around, though TSV doesn't see them as 'trendy' as Tiktok with its 5 videos at once with dog nose and ear filters. So when someone says something is 'dead,' what they really mean is that it's not trendy enough for greedy companies to try to exploit at that thing's expense. TSV asks that people in general try to look at it with perspective and not hear someone go 'X is dead,' just to repeat that person and go around saying 'OMG did you hear that??? X is dead!!!' Just remember it's strictly a business phrase.