Internet censorship has been in place for years. We use effectively one company's app to view information, and that same company's service to determine whether it exists in the first place.
Why mobile first? Because daily location data is a 6X multiplier across the value of ALL sold data - ads are actually a small part. Why is it then no local and all browser second? Because it's a reliable way to place and track ads. Why is there lacking GPT, much less ANY, innovation for the last 20 years? Why is there still no way to search your bookmarks? Because the search/click/back/click loop is extremely profitable, and they haven't figured out how to monetize a GPT loop yet. Time to revisit web rings of the old days.
So we are in the midst of a cultural and political revolution akin to those experienced in the wake of the invention of the printing press and the rise of mass literacy in the 16th century. Instead of Benedict Anderson’s ‘Imagined Communities’, which culturally legitimised colonialism and politically structured our nation states, we face a reiteration of a rise in Renaissance style city states as tech bros engage in factional wars of control over cultural and physical landscapes.
The Musk family are culturally no match for the Borgias although they may yet surpass them in casual cruelty and social brutalism
Internet censorship has been in place for years. We use effectively one company's app to view information, and that same company's service to determine whether it exists in the first place.
Why mobile first? Because daily location data is a 6X multiplier across the value of ALL sold data - ads are actually a small part. Why is it then no local and all browser second? Because it's a reliable way to place and track ads. Why is there lacking GPT, much less ANY, innovation for the last 20 years? Why is there still no way to search your bookmarks? Because the search/click/back/click loop is extremely profitable, and they haven't figured out how to monetize a GPT loop yet. Time to revisit web rings of the old days.
All I can say about Web 5.0 is "Oy vey!"
So we are in the midst of a cultural and political revolution akin to those experienced in the wake of the invention of the printing press and the rise of mass literacy in the 16th century. Instead of Benedict Anderson’s ‘Imagined Communities’, which culturally legitimised colonialism and politically structured our nation states, we face a reiteration of a rise in Renaissance style city states as tech bros engage in factional wars of control over cultural and physical landscapes.
The Musk family are culturally no match for the Borgias although they may yet surpass them in casual cruelty and social brutalism
A very interesting analogy!