1 year ago

Tipping points that change the course of internet technology are not rare, but they also don’t come around often. I think we’ve seen two massive tipping points in 2022: generative AI, which has leapt to the forefront of internet culture this year, and the beginnings of a movement away from centralized social media and onto federated social software.

But there’s a good chance that both generative AI and federated social software will prove to be truly disruptive technologies for the rest of this decade.

Even with the nascent metaverse, despite Meta wanting to turn it into the next mobile internet, most of the metaverse technology that stood out this year is web-based.

If you have other suggestions for best internet technologies of the year, I’d love to hear them — https://mastodon.social/@ricmac to start a discussion (oh alright, https://twitter.com/ricmac if you must).