"Your health records will be on the block chain."
"Everyone will live in the Metaverse."
"All art will be NFTs."
"Generative AI will replace the need for humans."
We need to reckon with the reality that the tech industry no longer creates things that anyone wants.
"Everyone will live in the Metaverse."
"All art will be NFTs."
"Generative AI will replace the need for humans."
We need to reckon with the reality that the tech industry no longer creates things that anyone wants.
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Now the Venture Capital firms that got so huge and grotesque by getting in early with these innovations keep demanding more, and they just... can't come up with anything.
At least in all the work I do as a game dev, I've never thought would the block chain make this better.
Not once.
I just can't see the use case. Not with how patents works, what you can and can't protect, copyright and recognition of.
Just maybe in some form of licencing?
Ain't good out there, but not sure this is the tool to solve.
No.
Maybe take the dr out of your name, assuming its real you should have quite a bit of interaction with modern data management systems
All of these things can be refined and added to forever. But there is not much need for a next big thing
The problem is that this means you’d spend most of your time living on a couch, with uncomfortable goggles on your head, images beamed directly onto your eyeballs, ignoring everything that used to constitute “living.”
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Let's start with;
#DeleteFacebook
Over a decade in on some of this stuff and the evangelists still can't justify a use case beyond "one day it might not suck."
The other problem is that they keep fixing what isn’t broken. Windows peaked at 95 and the iPhone at model 3.
Like, there’s literally nothing wrong with the battery of my iPad, but it pretends that it’s running out of power faster. And yet it somehow charges from 5% to 100% in a half hour? 🤔
Every piece of software I need for work is less useable and more broken now than ever before.
The promise they made when moving from boxed products to subscription services was constant maintenance.
Everything since have been cynical takes for companies to insert themselves into daily activities where they were never needed before.
Meanwhile, Google is disabling their early “smart” thermostats later this year. Imagine spending all that money and Google just says, “yeah screw you, buy more.”
Rotten industry.
When they're just another trend or gimmick.
A: I'm a dog, so there better be some pretty pungent sniffs in there
B: I'm a dog, so no artificial smells, I can tell those a mile away
C: I'm a dog, so I can't really pay much. Though my human does spend a lot on me.
You wanna see money lit on fire, you should go read the history of US railroads during the 19th century - there were SO MANY SCAMS.
The end result was normally bankruptcy, investors losing their shirts, and a Class 1 buying up their track cheap.
Robber Baron capitalism mirrors today in that horrific market failures and mass human misery were created on purpose over and over because they benefited the super rich.
The railroads are why we have modern securities law.
But families are still riding big on the wealth and name that came from setting them up.
The Web killed a whole host of jobs.
The Metaverse was supposed to kill travel.
If I'd been born 20-30 years prior, I'd be laughing.
Nothing replaces it
Then it shuttered its enormous selection and instead basically became a CHANNEL. Mostly trying to get you to watch their own stuff.
Meanwhile, the thing they destroyed? No remnant.
No, it's not!
But I also don't use it that much because it takes more effort to wear that honkin headset for any duration than to do something else.
This is why it will always be niche.