Talking about facebook creating the "social media" genre and taking over (at 18:58):
> It makes you wonder what else is coming [...] The impulse is "there won't be something like that ever again". But of course there will be in about 3 years probably. Whatever it is, it's probably being built now. You just can't tell what it is. And you know what I can't tell either.
This has been recorded in 2009, the year bitcoin has been released as open source software. So PG was pretty spot on that great stuff was being built as they speak.
> It makes you wonder what else is coming [...] The impulse is "there won't be something like that ever again". But of course there will be in about 3 years probably. Whatever it is, it's probably being built now. You just can't tell what it is. And you know what I can't tell either.
This has been recorded in 2009, the year bitcoin has been released as open source software. So PG was pretty spot on that great stuff was being built as they speak.