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The billionaire investor Peter Thiel (or maybe his ghostwriter) once said, “We were promised flying cars; what we got was 140 characters.” That quip appeared in a manifesto for Thiel’s venture fund in 2011. All good investment firms have a manifesto, right? This one argued for making bold bets on risky, world-changing technologies rather than chasing the tepid mundanity of social software startups. What followed, however, was a decade that got even more mundane. Messaging, ride hailing, house shares, grocery delivery, burrito taxis, chat, all manner of photo sharing, games, juice on demand, and Yo. Remember Yo? Yo, yo. …
摘自《麻省理工科技评论》(MIT Technology Review)第129卷 第1期 · 2026年1月刊,Mat Honan。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。