The TikTokization of Everything - by Rex Woodbury

The Great AI Reckoning

This is a weekly newsletter about how tech and culture intersect. To receive Digital Native in your inbox each week, subscribe here: Over the past decade, two primary forces have powered technology: mobile and cloud. Mobile facilitated the rise of massive consumer internet companies: Uber and Lyft, Instagram and Snap, Robinhood and Coinbase. Each was founded between 2009 and 2013. Digital advertising rapidly shifted to mobile in the 2010s, and desktop-era companies like Facebook had to scramble to reinvent their businesses. Cloud, for its part, underpinned an explosion in…

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