Neal Freiman

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On the topic of Google paying Apple $20 billion a year to be the default search engine, there was this recent antitrust trial and remedy verdict that was passed down on Google search, which was deemed a monopoly.

But the judge this past summer declined to respond.

wield heavy penalties against Google.

It said, you can still pay Apple, and we're not going to hive off any of your business.

And the judge cited specifically the rise of AI and chatbots and Anthropic and ChatGPT as true competitors to Google.

So they ruled that this was actually now, it looked like a much more competitive landscape than four or five years ago when Google, when this trial began.

So do you think that the rise of AI has led to a more competitive landscape in search?

And I have.

I was curious, you know, in shitification...

And shitification is a broad term, right?

But you use it in the context of social media companies and internet companies.

Do you find that it applies to other industries as well as some sort of, you know, relevant way of understanding what happens to other companies?

Like has McDonald's and shitified itself, the NFL?

Now, someone who's hearing you talk for the first time or reading your book might get the impression that you are a Luddite, very anti-technology.

And so I am curious, what is your relationship with technology?

I mean, you've been a blogger for a very long time, early adopter of the internet, working in the digital space for longer than we've been, we've been alive.

So I'm just curious at a personal level, like what is your, what is your view of technology?

So as a science fiction writer, there might be a lot of people who read science fiction.