Jumped same time (the year it became legal to make money on the Internet, which I think was '93), co-founding an ISP and web agency. And fully agree with you,

Jumped same time (the year it became legal to make money on the Internet, which I think was '93), co-founding an ISP and web agency. And fully agree with you, except that I think DLT (distributed ledger technology) has use cases, for instance, ATMs in grocery stores. Meanwhile Mid-Journey and text-davinci-003 are super impressive in making interesting things from probabilistic blends of other things. ChatGPT is like decades of Bayesian "reasoning" or probabilistic (aka "evidenced-based whatever") free association finally having a creative application and outlet.