Jack Simon (jacksimon)

Prior to mobile, citizen <> government latency was high for a reason. Now that smartphones are ubiquitous around the world, there's an opportunity to streamline communication. Exciting improvements to political participation, city management, incentive structuring and public health are possible.

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Authenticating my Farcaster account on @perl. [0x3ef9905e05203b6cf56ab20a186552d62038213f0b5edf861c48683f1af9a71b583eaedbd2179f2ab25217bf5382c9873fd449e1b5f9391a02b399733bc9488f1b]

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"A new kind of city is emerging, an algorithmic city. It promises gleaming efficiency, citizen-centered services on demand." Dystopian? Maybe ... but most of the internet is a hellscape and we still value it. Optimism abound https://medium.com/butwhatwasthequestion/the-street-as-platform-2050-98bbb81016f4

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Innovator’s dilemma + M&A mistakes appear to be primary factors. AOL focused on dial-up internet while the world shifted to broadband. Plus they made a major screw up in buying Time Warner for $165B. Yahoo lost ad revenue to Facebook and Google after refusing to acquire both companies.

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some educated speculation on Apple's role in the VR/AR space https://twitter.com/hrafntho/status/1590645027117486080

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Framework for thinking about company-building opportunities: New technologies, shifting zeitgeists, changing demographics and new business models each "unlock" cambrian explosions. Most current example: open source AI models "unlocking" this entire cohort of AI-augmented vertical end-to-end solutions.

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Potential concept for the FC dev community: Geofenced social media networks that are untouchable by authoritarian governments. Iran, for example, blocks Twitter. Sufficiently decentralized social media would enable Iranians to better organize anti-government movements.

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