Still recovering from the pandemic, the Web Summit regained its status as an imminent showcase for entrepreneurship, gathering 40,000 people in Lisbon Monday through Thursday – and opening up a privileged view of the future. The event did not receive 70,000 people from the pre-pandemic episodes, but Paddy Cosgrave, leader of the CIL, maintains the expectation that the FIL will expand to 100,000 people by 2022. By then, it is likely that one of the next five trends will be part of everyday life.
It’s hard for social media to get back to what they were. And almost certainty was evident at this web summit, with Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistle-blower, as headliner. In addition to reiterating that most social media platforms lack the ability or interest to monitor hate messages and false news in all languages, Haugen blamed Mark Zuckerberg, the leader of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. And even the fact that the company changed its name to Meta does not remove the accusations: “A person is not bad because he makes mistakes, but he becomes a bad person when he always makes the same mistakes and knows it.”
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