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The future will be audio-first. Fully disagree. Would the author also have made the claim back in 2006 when Twitter was founded, that the future of the internet are short texts with a 140 character limit?
I think this equation completely forgets to take into account the power of the people you tell about your ideas. If you are studying in Stanford and can literally walk into the office of professor X and tell him about your ideas (which worked pretty well for Elizabeth Holmes and professor Channing Robertson but that's a different story) you have an enormous competitive advantage. And if you have a Stanford professor on your side, it's pretty easy to open doors to other influential people.
On the other hand, if you tell your idea some stranger on the Internet... chances are much lower that you will find the right people.
Perhaps a little cynical but what would stop Google from classifying praising other search engines as "hate speech" and deleting any comments in this direction from their platforms? And when "hate speech" is just a little too absurd then they just classify it as "security risk" and ban it as well.