> Hopefully next time around we can be more discerning, more usefully critical.
Like after the destruction of democracy by social media? Or the implosion of the dot com bubble? How many more times does the tech industry get to just say "Hopefully next time!"
For what it's worth, I think that whatever we choose to do, we're going to get a lot less leeway in the future. I was just at a Trust & Safety conference. European legislators and regulators are very much cracking down on the social media space, and it's clear that years of slippery behavior from places like Meta have burned a lot of goodwill.
Like after the destruction of democracy by social media? Or the implosion of the dot com bubble? How many more times does the tech industry get to just say "Hopefully next time!"