Zoom is to X what early telephony was to the internet: mapping AI-mediated sensor networks
curious_vii · x · 2026-09-16
The author offers an open-ended analogy: as the early telephone system was to the internet, Zoom is to some yet-unnamed X.
He suspects X will look like AI-mediated high-fidelity sensor networks — a real-time sensing and connection layer with AI in the middle — and notes the complementary capital forms for such a space remain largely unexplored.
A speculative thought piece with no concrete product or data; its value is framing AI-mediated communication/perception as a direction worth thinking about.
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