The technology that defined the modern internet is changing, and Silicon Valley is finally admitting it.

Analysis by Lisa Eadicicco, CNN People aren't adding each other as much on Facebook these days. The iPhone might not feel necessary in a decade. And Google searches on one of the world's most popular smartphones are declining. Those were among the unusually frank admissions from two different antitrust lawsuits against Meta and Google. It was a rare acknowledgment by tech leaders that the once-groundbreaking products their companies were founded…

Analysis by Lisa Eadicicco, CNN People aren't adding each other as much on Facebook these days. The iPhone might not feel necessary in a decade. And Google searches on one of the world's most popular smartphones are declining. Those were among the unusually frank admissions from two different antitrust lawsuits against Meta and Google. It was a rare acknowledgment by tech leaders that the once-groundbreaking products their companies were founded…

The Giants of Silicon Valley Are Having a Midlife Crisis Over AI

(Wall Street Journal) – Apple, Facebook, Google and Tesla are all facing the ‘innovator’s dilemma’ at the same time Middle age hits hard—even for the Kings of Silicon Valley. One minute you’re upending established industries as the young disrupter. The next, you’re staring into the abyss, eating glass—as Elon Musk likes to say—watching the disruption at your door. Most, if not all, of the Magnificent Seven are in that position—weirdly trying at …

Google Search, Facebook and the iPhone may not last forever. And Silicon Valley is finally admitting it - Egypt Independent

People aren’t friending each other as much on Facebook these days. The iPhone might not feel necessary in a decade. And Google searches on one of the world’s most popular smartphones are declining.

Facebook's "cultural relevance is decreasing quickly"

Welcome to Internal Tech Emails: internal tech industry emails that surface in public records. 🔍 If you haven’t signed up, join 50,000+ others and get the newsletter:Subscribe nowMark Zuckerberg: The Facebook app's "cultural relevance is decreasing quickly"From: Mark ZuckerbergDate: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 10:40 PMTo: Chris Cox, Tom AlisonSubject: FB app visionWe’ve spent a lot of time recently on shifting resources from non-Reels/NF FB feat…

What began as an academic experiment to connect computers became the invisible fabric that sustains almost all modern life. But it also became the epicenter of a disturbing paradox: the network that promised to democratize knowledge and unite the world, today fragmenting it and watching it. Almost all the video, [...] The Internet entry: from open network to platform monopoly was first published in Digital Process.