It correlates with my theory of Endless September someday having an end. The problem of Endless September was growth - too much growth, too quickly. When that s

It correlates with my theory of Endless September someday having an end. The problem of Endless September was growth - too much growth, too quickly. When that stops, and unless we experience an AI personhood event, it has to, because we only have so many people on the planet and so much data they can transmit - the network settles into a place where it can focus on quality instead of sheer scale. In the developed world we are likely already entering this phase, with online access surpassing 80%, and the rest of the world is not that far behind. So then what happens? The business model changes. Social network technologies will re-commoditize and the value will return to communities. Privacy takes a bigger role, as you note. And the world, for better or worse(but probably better), becomes even weirder and harder to assess or manipulate top-down.