No, but only because TikTok is outperforming it in its niche. Counterpoint: contemporary social media streams, married to surveillance, absolutely has taken ov

No, but only because TikTok is outperforming it in its niche. Counterpoint: contemporary social media streams, married to surveillance, absolutely has taken over the world, in most senses that matter; in terms both of mind-share and more importantly, in terms of the shaping of beliefs and hence actions. Spend some time (in social media and its hangers on, natch..) amid groups monitoring things like the consumption of the American right by Q Anon and militia, and who funds and drives this, and (to the extent it is bring prized out and analyzed) how and it is IMO very clear that the world as understood by and acted in by a great many people is for all practical purposes steered (if "only" stochastically) via social media. The tools for doing that today require craft and human innovation and effort. My point is that the need for human oversight is going to be chipped relentlessly away even as the efficacy of the outcomes increases and the cost of competing in the mindshare market decreases. But admittedly breathless yes from excitement, and also, creeping alarm. The timescale doesn't justify the increase in pulse rate, admittedly. But the projection does and I stand by it...