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"If you do average work for average pay, AI is going to be able to do it cheaper than you."
— Seth Godin
Tim Ferrissx.comJoe examines many problems with the internet giants of today (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Netflix) and how they take advantage of the individuals who use their platforms, stating, “By addicting us to their systems they keep us sellable.” He continues to describe the misalignment of incentives which has resulted in humans becoming the product as... See more
Joseph Lubin • Blockchain Explained: How Web 3.0 Will Create New Business Models
In “This Is for Everyone,” Berners-Lee argues that the web’s lack of compassion is “a design issue ” that can be fixed. “There’s still time,” he writes, “to build machines that serve the human,” that “promote the dignity of our fragile species on this isolated globe.” It’s a moving vision. But it’s hard to reconcile with the entropy of today’s... See more
Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
The metrics are terrible. The format itself is monolithic and static, and very un-digital. It’s as though, instead of the web, which is after all an open, composable, extensible, programmable network, we were all using random FTP apps from indie developers to download PDFs to read, and those FTP apps each had their own Yahoo-like hand-written
... See moreBenedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 548
The real villain here is Google.
Google found one of the very best business models of all time, skimming all the surplus profit off of the entire free open internet.
This is the natural end state of that process.
The AI boom is not just probably bigger than the two previous ones I've seen (integrated circuits and the internet), but also seems to be spreading faster.
Paul Grahamx.com