• Dr. Dabbles
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    11 months ago

    Before this is was blockchain, and before that it was “AI”, and before that…

    • @adeoxymus@lemmy.world
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      1811 months 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.

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        111 months ago

        None of those things took 60 years to still not materialize like AI has. Some of them are still to be commercially successful.

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      511 months 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.

      • Dr. Dabbles
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        311 months 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.