So my predictions, in a ten tweet thread: 1. Crypto/blockchain dies as a major story this year. the Silicon Valley hype cycle is a pretty predictable thing, and there’s simply too much real-but-boring work to be done right now in the space.
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6. Google/Alphabet will have a terrible first half (reputation wise), but recover after that. I’m not sure how the company recovers its mojo, but it could be by pushing deeper into a strategy of letting its children grow up outside the Alphabet conglomerate structure. And...
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7. The Duopoly falls out of favor. No, this doesn’t mean year-on-year declines in revenue, but it does mean a falloff in year-on-year growth, and by the end of 2018, a increasingly vocal contingent of influencers inside the advertising world will speak out against the companies.
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8. Pinterest breaks out. The big question is whether Pinterest can both scale its inventory in a predictable and contextual way, and whether it can make its self service/API-based platform super simple to use.
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9. Autonomous vehicles do not become mainstream. I’ve said it before, I’m saying it again: This shit is complicated, and we’re not even close to ready.
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10. Business leads. Business changes through the slow uptake of new social norms. And a crucial new norm in business is the expectation that companies take their responsibilities to all stakeholders as seriously as they take their duty to shareholders.
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