Seriously, how much new consumer tech in the past 15 years has made an impact beyond “neat, but no widely applicable use-case”?
There have been plenty of incremental improvements, but most new paradigms (especially the ones touted as world-changing) have amounted to nothing.
#VR? High-end gaming device. Crypto? Unfit for any real use. NFTs? Pointless from jump. Metaverse? Already dead. Generative #AI? I guess we’ll see, but my bet is the current approach plateaus faster than we expect.
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