Zoom is the Skype of video - it turned a technology few people used much into a mass-market product. But next we’ll get the equivalents of Instagram and Snap - products that ask different questions. Zoom solved getting into a call, but why are you in the call?
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Events are a bundle of content, networking and meetings, and aggregate people in one place at one time. When you try to take this online, half of it breaks and most of it makes no sense bundled together. We need new tools and new ways to think about networks, not ‘virtual conferences’.
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Social apps are pop culture, trying to grab some piece of the zeitgeist, and build a product around how people feel. But so too are a lot of the new wave of productivity apps. They’re not just utilities, but theories of how we might feel about work.
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"That is not only not right; it is not even wrong" - Wolfgang Pauli
Read MoreThis should be VR’s moment, but instead it’s still stuck as a subset of games consoles, and that isn’t why Mark Zuckerberg bought Oculus. How will that change? Do we get another VR winter?
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In January, everyone was online, and probably willing to try anything online. Now we don’t have a choice - we’re shut indoors for weeks or months. What does that means for work? Ecommerce? Health and education? And the people left behind?
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Microsoft and IBM used to dominate tech - today they’re still big companies, but no-one is scared of them anymore. That wasn’t because of anti-trust. Rather, the products that used to give them dominance stopped mattering. We still use Windows, and mainframes, but they’re not the centre of tech anymore.
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Amazon is a big company, but what does that mean? How big is ‘big’? What does ‘dominant’ or ‘scale’ or ‘huge’ mean when US retail is $6 trillion every year?
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