10 Charts That Capture How the World Is Changing (July 2023)

Charts on falling institutional trust, AI, venture capital and social apps are presented as evidence of a changing world, and built-in distribution is described as the central challenge for startups in 2023. Americans' confidence in higher education fell from 57% in 2015 to 36% in 2023, which the piece attributes to student debt, COVID and a fast-changing job market. Bloomberg is cited as expecting generative AI to reach a $1.3 trillion market and 12% of total tech spend within 10 years. Threads reached 100M users within a few days of launch, which the piece credits to its use of Instagram's userbase.