I think different technologies are going to appeal to different audiences and users. I've been pretty blown away by generative AI, both stuff like Stable Diffus

I think different technologies are going to appeal to different audiences and users. I've been pretty blown away by generative AI, both stuff like Stable Diffusion and now, these ultra-powerful LLMs (although I didn't much about it before that) - it's obvious that pairing w/ ChatGPT makes me a better programmer, and it functions as a pretty good research assistant as to boot, however, talking/showing it around to a lot of friends, many of them are dismissive or pretty meh around then and so far, and profess to not have any use for it. But then again, that may be why there's huge adoption of crypto in countries like Nigeria (32%!) or Vietnam (21%) [1] (obviously, crypto is a lot more useful in your life if you have a weaker central currency or less financial access; their deeper dive into Sub-Saharan Africa adoption of crypto in particular is fascinating [2]). Likewise, I'm a believer in the eventual adoption of XR, but a big part of my excitement is really my desire for infinite screen space. Still, I can see the argument that everything will be spatial in the future and personally, I see these trends tying together a lot more than not. Maybe they're on different hype curves, but decentralized financial transactions on credibly neutral, near real time networks (w/ smart contracts) seem like a natural fit for agentic AI. And in the VR arena, I'm seeing some incredibly compelling stuff happening with NeRFs and other generative media that is going to make virtual/augmented immersion a lot more compelling (one of the big bottlenecks for VR right now is generating compelling evergreen content and experiences). [1] https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2022-global-crypto-adoption-index/ https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2022-global-crypto-adop... [2] https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/sub-saharan-africa-cryptocurrency-geography-report-2022-preview/ https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/sub-saharan-africa-cryp...