1bda7e1f7396bda2d1ef99033da8fd2dc362810790df9be62f591038bb97c4d9I think we're moving from a world of powerful companies to a world of powerful users. Early internet was all about powerful companies. Individuals didn't have websites, companies did. Companies published their offers, users searched for them. Now AI assistants are here and I see companies assume this same paradigm applies. Here's my app now with agent TM! I think they're wrong. I think powerful individuals will have and benefit from AI agents, even more than companies will. Agents will publish their user's asks, and companies will have to respond. Agents will have infinite capability to ask, and filter responses. Companies will have to outcompete to reach the user, to beat through the agent filter. I am trying to wrap my head around where this goes to. Major impacts on search and advertising models... Major impacts on centralised marketplaces...
1bda7e1f7396bda2d1ef99033da8fd2dc362810790df9be62f591038bb97c4d9I reminisce about those days too. I remember them so well. I came from BBS to ICQ and MSN chat in my mid teens. It was like, the thing that helped me recover from another crappy day at school. And I feel a lot of that vibe returning here on Nostr. But still, fundamentally I learned to use Webcrawler and Altavista to, as a user, discover a publisher, which (putting aside Geocities for a moment) was usually a business. I never would have considered that publishers would fight to seek me out. But that's where I think we may be going. I think the script is going to flip from internet dominated by service providers, to one dominated by user intent.
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Condor
Jan 19, 2025
The main difference was that we were ready to plug in a modem, set the data rate, search for the fidonet phone numbers to call. It wasn't plug and play. We made an effort to be online and we were filtered out from the pure users. Here is like that because you can not Google play this app.
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