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> What people didn't predict: Clickbait, e-mail phishing, viral fake news Didn't need to predict those. Analog equivalents always existed. > and people prefe
by eitland 8y ago
> What people didn't predict: Clickbait, e-mail phishing, viral fake news
Didn't need to predict those. Analog equivalents always existed.
> and people preferring SMS to a voice or facetime call.
Who wouldn't ;-) Thanks to the transition to asynchronous message based communication I can have more and more meaningful communication with a larger part of my family than I would if I had to FaceTime or call them.
In business it is even more useful as it provides a trail of who did what in addition to the other advantages.
- selestify 8y agoAnalog equivalents existed, but did anyone care to extrapolate from the analog to the digital?
- jayd16 8y agoHmm I feel like Jetsons might have had a video telemarketer but most incarnations of the metaverse talk about commercial enterprise and it's ramifications.
- cptvideo 8y agoHere’s something else that they didn’t predict: that sales of books printed on paper are at their all-time highest now.
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