"It’s a dramatic, messy era on the internet. Everything is changing rapidly. There’s broad dissatisfaction with the dominant search engine, and activists are worried about the privacy implications of increasingly intrusive online surveillance. While investors prattle on about esoteric topics like digital currencies and virtual reality, back in the real world, users are concerned with how hard it is to message all their friends on the many different platforms that they’re using, and perhaps a bit curious about the new social networks that keep popping up. Amidst the backdrop of all this change, an off-putting nerd named Elon Musk won’t stop talking about an “everything app” called X that will help him manifest his extremist views.
....
The era I’m talking about is 2000. But it could just as easily be 2024"
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/
SuperMoosie /
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2024-02-08 11:19:16
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