Your Life, Curated by Algorithm: The Rise of the Everything App
Big Tech doesn’t want to enhance your decisions, it wants to replace them. Welcome to a future where you won’t search, scroll, or even think… unless it’s on-brand.
We’re not moving toward general AI, we’re being moved into it. Google’s new AI Mode skips links and drops us straight into answer land. Ask, receive, repeat. It’s part of a broader land grab: Apple, Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, and even Airbnb are building “everything apps” that promise to know your needs before you do.
All fueled by your data; texts, likes, emails, preferences, turned into product fodder. It’s convenient until it’s creepy. And unreliable: AI still recommends glue-on pizza cheese.
Still, this isn’t about tools, it’s about control. Tech giants are fusing every aspect of our lives into single interfaces.
- Google’s AI Mode replaces traditional search
- Meta, Amazon, and Apple want full-stack dominance
- Personal data is the currency driving it all
This isn’t innovation; it’s enclosure. Are we integrating with AI, or are we being subsumed by it?
Read the full article on The Atlantic.
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