The late-stage of a paradigm is efficient but soulless.
The robber baron era.
Highly centralized, highly extractive.
We're in the late stage of the app paradigm.
From other episodes
- A paradigm shift is the time to be idealistic.2026-01-19
- The universe tends inexorably towards consolidation because of gravity.2025-11-10
- We're in the climax forest phase of the tech ecosystem.2025-10-13
- Stephen Levy: I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley.2025-09-29
- At the late stage of a paradigm, all of the problems bunch up into one meta-problem.2025-09-15
- The consumer tech ecosystem has been stagnant for a decade.2025-08-25
- Before the web everyone thought we were in the end state of history with no more applications to create.2025-08-25
- An idea from a friend I can't get out of my head: "No country in the world lets tourists vote."2025-08-11