The Internet blew up the publishing industry. Content used to be expensive to create, but now it’s trivial to create and distribute, which gutted publishers, etc. AI will do the same for software.
Vogue wasn’t replaced by another fashion media company, it was replaced by 10,000 influencers. Salesforce will not be replaced by another monolithic CRM. It will be replaced by a constellation of things that dynamically serve the same intent and pain points. Software companies will be replaced the same way media companies were, giving rise to a new set of platforms that control distribution.
I think the unknown author here may be oversimplifying. The Internet alone doesn’t disrupt industries like publishing. Financialization and regulatory capture play major roles as well.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus Proposition Agenda Executive Summary. — Four pages, a quick read. Seven major points, all of which are agreeable to nearly all Americans.
Homeowners want housing prices to go up. This is ultimately the biggest hurdle for affordable housing policy. By David Dayen at The American Prospect.
J.K. Lund has a modest proposal for reforming American zoning and encouraging the growth of cities, because cities are great. “Cities are idea factories, furnaces of innovation, where wealth and human capability are forged.”
I use Instagram the way other people use TikTok (or how I assume they use TikTok—I’ve barely ever used TikTok myself).
Very few people I know seem to use Instagram anymore, so instead of a personal feed of photos, I just see a lot of short videos. Mainly cute animal videos; Insta’s algorithm has sussed out that I like those.
I see that Insta is now introducing unskippable ads in its feed, and if does that to me I’ll just stop using Instagram. I won’t be angry about it or even give it much thought. I’ll just stop. Cute animal videos aren’t hard to find elsewhere on the Internet.
Cisco: We were unprepared for the cloud. But we’re ready for AI — Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins admitted the company was unprepared for the cloud revolution. But Cisco is ready for AI, with plans to address the challenges of distributed networking, such as observability and security. New buzzword dropped: “Digital resilience.”
This is the latest Fierce Network Research Bulletin, by yrs truly. Also contained therein, a teaser for our upcoming webinar about network automation and AI on Tuesday, as well as a meme.
A neighbor is loudly playing and singing along to the greatest hits of the 70s and 80s. “I Will Survive.” “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” It’s like a 1983 Bat Mitzvah here in my home office.
We don’t need to burn down the planet for AI — AI is increasing data center energy consumption, which already accounts for 1-2% of global energy use. Cisco and Equinix are implementing energy-efficient technologies. Leaders of the two companies talked about their green energy strategies at Cisco Live this week. Ironically, the discussion of green energy happened in Las Vegas, which seems to be a horribly climate-unfriendly city (but maybe isn’t really). My latest on Fierce Network.
📷🐕🦖Something I saw while walking the dog: This house with a velociraptor in the front yard.
