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Your comment seems almost intentionally obtuse... How's them internet and smartphones doing the watershed world changing these days?

Apocryphon 4y ago
Well, pursuant to the original discussion: (2009) https://www.computerworld.com/article/2525229/study--internet-economy-has-created-1-2m-jobs.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2525229/study--interne... (2015) https://venturebeat.com/mobile/mobile-technology-has-created-11-million-jobs-and-a-3-3-trillion-in-revenues/ https://venturebeat.com/mobile/mobile-technology-has-created... (2021) https://www.iab.com/news/study-finds-internet-economy-grew-seven-times-faster/ https://www.iab.com/news/study-finds-internet-economy-grew-s...
izacus 4y ago
Well, we certanly didn't hit the "apppocalypse", iPads didn't fully replace desktop computing and phones haven't ended up equalizing wealth inequality. A lot of breathless BS that was spoken around those technologies didn't come to pass - they became tools. Great tools, but just tools that fit into our lives where it made sense. Same for the internet - things changed, but the breathless predictions that retails stores are dead and everyone will be WFH haven't happened. It became a tool. So will ChatGPT - I look forward to good autocomplete and a nice bullshitter-in-a-box tool to generate these HN comments. But most jobs aren't improved or more productive by adding a faster bullshit generator. The bullshit generators in suits are already really good at that.
- Apocryphon 4y ago
  There's certainly been sweeping social changes thanks to smartphones, but it's arguably not because of smartphones in of themselves, so much as mobile connectivity. In a world where we invented William Gibson-style cyberdecks or if netbooks became wildly popular, that would have happened as well.

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Your comment seems almost intentionally obtuse... How's them internet and smartphones doing the watershed world changing these days?

by eggsmediumrare 4y ago

Apocryphon 4y ago
Well, pursuant to the original discussion: (2009) https://www.computerworld.com/article/2525229/study--internet-economy-has-created-1-2m-jobs.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2525229/study--interne... (2015) https://venturebeat.com/mobile/mobile-technology-has-created-11-million-jobs-and-a-3-3-trillion-in-revenues/ https://venturebeat.com/mobile/mobile-technology-has-created... (2021) https://www.iab.com/news/study-finds-internet-economy-grew-seven-times-faster/ https://www.iab.com/news/study-finds-internet-economy-grew-s...
izacus 4y ago
Well, we certanly didn't hit the "apppocalypse", iPads didn't fully replace desktop computing and phones haven't ended up equalizing wealth inequality. A lot of breathless BS that was spoken around those technologies didn't come to pass - they became tools. Great tools, but just tools that fit into our lives where it made sense. Same for the internet - things changed, but the breathless predictions that retails stores are dead and everyone will be WFH haven't happened. It became a tool. So will ChatGPT - I look forward to good autocomplete and a nice bullshitter-in-a-box tool to generate these HN comments. But most jobs aren't improved or more productive by adding a faster bullshit generator. The bullshit generators in suits are already really good at that.
- Apocryphon 4y ago
  There's certainly been sweeping social changes thanks to smartphones, but it's arguably not because of smartphones in of themselves, so much as mobile connectivity. In a world where we invented William Gibson-style cyberdecks or if netbooks became wildly popular, that would have happened as well.