A digital multiverse
The metaverse is increasingly becoming a frontier for tech companies to deploy the narrative that suits them. Even as AR and VR tease out the various possibilities, what could it all lead to?
Tag: Google
Default in our stars
Choosing “Shuffle Play” on Netflix and outsourcing an entertainment decision to an algorithm may not seem like a big deal, but I think there are second-order consequences that affect the self, society, and species – hugely driven by surveillance capitalism.
The shrinking shelf life of ecosystems
One of my favourite business frames in the recent past has been Jeremy Liew’s “When a consumer market is new, distribution wins. As consumers become educated, product wins. When products reach parity, brand wins.” Two events happened in the last fortnight that made me reflect more on this. The first was Apple’s power move on Facebook […]
The Gatekeepers
To quote Robert Wright from Non Zero: To stay strong, a society must adopt new technologies. In particular, it must reap the non-zero-sum fruits they offer. Yet new technologies often redistribute power within societies. (They often do this precisely because they raise non-zero-sumness- because they expand the number of people who profit from the system […]
Information & Interfaces
I’m still stuck on the narrative of consumption – both on the intent and interest front, as I wrote in Intent, Interest & Internet Dominance, as well as on the interfaces through which it will happen, something I started writing on in Consumer- facing AI : Phase One. In this era of abundant choice, a […]