The world of tech needs a new killer app

[timelets]

We haven’t had a new exciting consumer technology in a while. Online meetings/education, although useful, feels imposed and buggy. To many, mRNA vaccines also feel involuntary and somewhat dangerous. ChatGPT doesn’t have any cool apps that a common person can relate to. All of that feeds into a backlash against tech in general. Musk's antics don't help either. The world wants some kind of penicillin or, at least, Angry Birds. None seems to be forthcoming.

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[timelets]

I wish I knew what people want :)

From what I know, Semaglutide is a bandaid, rather than a cure. Once people get off it, they start gaining weight again.

Although, I agree that perception plays a major role in the way we interact with technology. People feel that they are being used by technology, rather than the other way around. The message "you are the product" is written all over mass tech services. And there's no escape from it, really. Somehow, even video streaming, which started as a successful attempt to break free from TV, degenerated into a bazillion of narrow TikTok tunnels defined by AI. Having huge monopolies doesn't help either.

Also, money used to be cheap and startups could pour hundreds of millions into customer acquisition without having a sustainable business model. Nowadays, money is expensive and you can't give away stuff for free, hoping to discover your real business later. As a side effect, consumers got addicted to free.

At this point, B2B seems to be a lot more promising that B2C. At least businesses are more realistic about what they want and how much they are willing to pay for a good service. Nevertheless, AI ( as a broad set of related tech) is a true revolution. We just need to find the right entry points into the future.