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> web and software technology has actually almost consumed every inch of our reality. Has that happened DURING the dot com bubble as well?
by birracerveza 4y ago
> web and software technology has actually almost consumed every inch of our reality.
Has that happened DURING the dot com bubble as well?
- piva00 4y agoIt was definitely visible during the dot-com bubble that some projects, ideas, companies would have a future. And back in 2000-2001 people were already experiencing the advantages and benefits of using the web and products on the web in their lives. Contrast that with crypto, 15 years in and no one knows exactly what's good for, there is no mass of people being helped by it. There are some traces of some people being able to evade capital controls in dictatorships and... That's basically it, no other benefits to the masses have shown up, at all. What was the cost of this benefit? Hundreds of thousands to millions have been scammed out of their money by con-artists.
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- ethanbond 4y agoAT&T was putting out ads that correctly predicted more or less all of our current consumer tech world in 1993. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm9jr0cSqZo&feature=share&si=ELPmzJkDCLju2KnD5oyZMQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm9jr0cSqZo&feature=share&si... The use cases were pretty clear and you didn’t need to be a quasi-religious fanatic with vested financial interests to find them believable.
- bandrami 4y agoHell, the 3rd season of James Burke's Connections in 1983 showed him talking to a voice-activated and voice-responding virtual digital assistant over a satellite modem scheduling videoconferences, buying airplane tickets, and making electronic financial transactions. Everything about that was already possible in 1983 except for the voice recognition; it just wasn't yet cheap enough to be in mass use.