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(aside from IT acceleration that is mentioned in the article): From a consumer-tech PoV: TikTok and Instagram have also seen the biggest gains. I see reviews o

(aside from IT acceleration that is mentioned in the article): From a consumer-tech PoV: TikTok and Instagram have also seen the biggest gains. I see reviews of products and books, highlights of past sporting events, short movies and stories, short-form memes and videos explode in quantity. Instagram is now a Reddit and YouTube replacement rolled into one. Instagram still doesn't quite have a good story around content-discovery, yet, but it'll be interesting to see how their search and discovery changes in response. They've got the UX chops in spades to pull such a thing off. WhatsApp has rapidly replaced email, MMS, and SMS, but quite surprisingly is also now a social network, a news aggregator, a blogging network all mashed up into one. Everyone can get their opinions across or share opinions they think are novel. Tellingly, WhatsApp's competitor, Telegram is increasingly becoming a PirateBay alternative. Netflix is in all households that can afford it, and people previously averse to technology are using Chromecast / FireTV and buying bigger TV sets to make good on their Netflix usage. I'm not sure about the US, but where I live, people are learning to cook instead, partly out of fear of possible contamination spread through restaurant deliveries. Shopify (and its clones) are gaining popularity among small business owners, as they desperately try to adopt technology in anticipation of an online-first, post-covid world. For other industries, WFH (or really, work-from-wherever-you-are) would continue to gather steam and so, co-working spaces might see a jump, too. More likely that highly distributed offices become a norm, with people working from spaces closer to where they live. This might relieve a bit of pressure on higher real-estate prices in urban centers. It'd be interesting, then, to see how new-age tech-focused realty companies like zerodown, haus keep up with changing times.

pxtail 7y ago
> Instagram is now a Reddit and YouTube replacement Nice joke, for me Instagram is a barren, walled wasteland when it comes to valuable content, indexing and search seems to be non-existent from user perspective and human is reduced to mindless consumer of mental equivalent of fast-food served by algorithm - sparkling, shiny, low attention span, but without much of substance. For me it's disheartening and hard to comprehend how it can be presented as replacement for services where you can learn almost anything,quite literally build and furnish your house from the ground up, etc.

pxtail 7y ago

> Instagram is now a Reddit and YouTube replacement Nice joke, for me Instagram is a barren, walled wasteland when it comes to valuable content, indexing and search seems to be non-existent from user perspective and human is reduced to mindless consumer of mental equivalent of fast-food served by algorithm - sparkling, shiny, low attention span, but without much of substance. For me it's disheartening and hard to comprehend how it can be presented as replacement for services where you can learn almost anything,quite literally build and furnish your house from the ground up, etc.