The smartphone has had a good run. Twenty years of dominance, a trillion-dollar ecosystem, the dopamine loop that ate civilization. Big Tech has already picked its successor — and it sits on your face. The
Facebook was cool once. Not serviceable-cool, not niche-cool — genuinely, culturally cool. When it opened beyond Harvard in 2006, people talked about it the way they talked about getting into a good restaurant. The invitation
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