🔗 The Dystopian Dream Team:

For this general category of computing devices, I think we already figured it out. Right now, with all these new products created around AI features, we’re not witnessing another leap or a new product category that will overtake the devices we have today.

What we’re seeing right now is not innovation, we’re seeing people struggle to contend with the reality that it’s over. They’re coping with the fact that the innovation phase for computing devices has finished. They’re grasping for continued relevance.

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TBH I get really strong Segway vibes off this whole Altman/Ive business.

The problem, I think, is that our entire economic system—and much of our culture and society, at this point—depends on the idea that there will always be a Next Big Thing. So now for all of these Big Tech types and the shared cinematic universe of investors, journalists, pundits, and other parasites and vultures that surround them, it is a coyote-at-past-the-cliff’s-edge type of situation where they have to just keep running because if they look down, they’ll see there is no longer any ground beneath them.