• adeoxymus@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Before that self driving cars, before that “Big data”, before that 3D printing, before that internet TV, before that “cloud computing”, before that web 2.0, before that WAP maybe, internet in general?

      Some of those things did turn out to be game changers, others not at all or not so much. It’s hard to predict the future.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      1 year ago

      I live in Silicon Valley, and there’s a billboard along highway 101 near San Francisco that’s an ad for “BlockChat”, a “Web3 messenger” that uses the blockchain instead of a server. I went to Google Play to look at the app and it’s only had 10k downloads total. I really don’t understand how blockchain would help with messaging, and there’s a bunch of limitations (eg you can never delete messages). People just trying to shoehorn AI and blockchain into everything.

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        1 year ago

        Yep. Spot on. If they can raise VC money and walk away with someone else’s cash in their pocket, they’ll say whatever buzz word they need to.

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      1 year ago

      Empires can only rise from chaos, and can only descend into chaos. This has been known since time immemorial.