> Yet, some how, can't help but feeling that something is off. Or it's just me that I'm just not getting "the thing"? This is (or will be) one of "the next big

> Yet, some how, can't help but feeling that something is off. Or it's just me that I'm just not getting "the thing"? This is (or will be) one of "the next big things" in this century; I'm fairly confident about that. What's off is that it's very new and so people don't know how to talk about it yet. Witness this article, which seems to deliberately confuse the predictable weirdness of the art style (it's not that weird... it's just neo-Dadaism for our times) with the unpredictable emergence of NFTs. I think NFTs are yet another interesting (perhaps local) maxima of the search space, which is "ways to get back some of that old-fashioned tangible value from digital goods". Looked at this way, it's not really surprising that something like NFTs would become a thing. What's silly (and cynical, in my opinion) is when tech writers bury the lede by associating the technology with the avant garde uses of it. This is similar to the bizarre obsession by many legacy mainstream car manufacturers for making their electric cars look like hippie pretentious toys. The tech is obviously useful. The fashion is the trojan horse for the tech. But it gets old when people realize the almost banal usefulness of the tech itself. Then you don't need the silly-looking horse anymore.