Salesforce’s purchase of Slack: how social media is swallowing our brains

Salesforce’s purchase of Slack: how social media is swallowing our brains

Marc Andreessen famously said that software is eating the world. That was a statement about economics. Now I believe that social media is swallowing our brains, which is a much broader statement about human behavior. The precipitating event for this observation is Salesforce’s announcement that it would acquire Slack for $27.7 billion. According to Salesforce…