What if we could create a social network with no humans involved at all? And we'll build a company for it that won't employ any humans either. And - wait for it - we'll get a $600B investment to build it.

Customer service bots talking to customer bots. AI generated content consumed by AI summarizers. The logical endpoint of full automation is a system that runs perfectly and serves nobody. It seems that we are hearing the elevator pitch for this Nulliverse from all directions now, and the elevator shows no signs of stopping.

At some point you have to ask: if you remove the humans from the tech industry, who is the industry serving then?