The Metaverse of Snow Crash is not a good analogy for the future, as the Internet breaks down into Stephenson’s dystopia| Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Airbnb gets less press than Uber, but in some respects its even more radical: understanding how it works leads one to question many of the premises of modern society from hotels to regulations. It&…| Stratechery by Ben Thompson
A conversational assistant you can use across our apps, new tools to easily edit your images, AI characters played by Tom Brady, Kendall Jenner, Snoop Dogg and lots more.| Meta Newsroom
Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.| Futurism
Given the success of existing companies with new epochs, the most obvious place to start when thinking about the impact of AI is with the big five: Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.| Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Netflix has a lot more in common with Uber and Airbnb than you might think: it all comes back to the Law of Conservation of Attractive Profits, a core principle of disruption| Stratechery by Ben Thompson
The disruption caused by the Internet in industry after industry has a common theoretical basis described by Aggregation Theory.| Stratechery by Ben Thompson