Has the Landscape of the Internet Plateaued?
Not by any means saying there haven’t been increasingly impressive technical achievements in the last decade or so, but most of it feels like it's built to serve the Web 2.0/5G tech landscape rather than redefine it. With phones capable of streaming high-quality video, it kind of seems like both the phone and the web are in their final forms. For how fast-paced the growth of the internet and tech was from the turn of the millennium to the mid-2010s, it feels like we’re stuck with what we’ve got for the foreseeable future. Am I off base here?
Yup, early/mid 2010s brought a fundamental shift in priorities: less making stuff people wanted to use, more making stuff to lock people in and then enshittifying it, while raking in money from ads and subscriptions that are made intentionally hard to cancel.