pop culture
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 14, 2021 by Benedict Evans · across every show →
Everything said about pop culture, oldest first
Feb 14, 2021 neutral
Evans: Social media platforms are pop culture, not just software
“My kind of general, like, theory of social, if it's as coherent as a general theory, is that this stuff is basically pop culture. And so, people invent, inventing a new piece of social media is like inventing a new kind of music, or a new magazine, or, you kno…”
Jul 13, 2021 neutral
Evans: Consumer tech is driven by cultural insight, not software engineering
“A lot of like consumer tech now is as much pop culture as it is tech. You know, is Snapchat tech or is that pop culture? You know, that, the inside, whatever you think the answer was, it wasn't software engineering. It was some insight about how people wanted …”