Ryan Cole examines how telecom, streaming, gaming, and social media collapsed into overlapping ecosystems competing for attention. From AT&T buying studios to Fortnite hosting concerts, he traces how industries abandoned specialization for vertical integration—transforming discrete services into bundled mega-platforms that recreate cable's problems at higher costs with worse interfaces.

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