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People were sounding the same alarm in the '90s with AOL. History has shown us that, at some point, a leaner, more innovative company will surpass Facebook.
by genki_teacher 9y ago
People were sounding the same alarm in the '90s with AOL. History has shown us that, at some point, a leaner, more innovative company will surpass Facebook.
- gregknicholson 9y agoWho says it'll be a company?
- jlebrech 9y agoless design by commitee
- glitcher 9y agoYes, the history of the early, open web, which now is in danger of being... history.
- cJ0th 9y agoWell they were kinda right. AOL was merely an early iteration of what we have now. Maybe another company will surpass FB but I am pretty sure from iteration to iteration it will be harder and harder to replace an incumbent since each round's winner will be more powerful than the previous one. AOL, for instance, was mostly an American thing. FB, otoh, has global power.
- Chaebixi 9y ago> History has shown us that, at some point, a leaner, more innovative company will surpass Facebook. Facebook has learned the same lesson, and is explicitly trying to keep it from ever happening again. See https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/technology/frightful-five-start-ups.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/technology/frightful-five...