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> Ten years from now, looking back on the 2022 tech recession, we may say that this moment was a paroxysm of scandals and layoffs between two discrete movements.

The author is suggesting the first "movement" was the "browser era, the social-media era, and the smartphone-app-economy era".

It seems they think the next era will vaguely have something to do with AI.

What do HN'ers think the next "movement" will be (if any)?

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In my opinion it might be more disparate if people's hardware specs can afford it, trading centralization for peer to peer or federated services at the expense of creating even greater filter bubbles. That or non-centralized web things are just fashionable to talk about and I am blindly regurgitating trends. 50-50 really, half of those conversations were spurred on by crypto wank and those types aren't exactly having a good time right now.

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