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This era is very reminiscent of early social media. While the majority was hoo-rah’ing it as this great thing, prescient technologists, including on HN, were wa
by reducesuffering 3y ago
This era is very reminiscent of early social media. While the majority was hoo-rah’ing it as this great thing, prescient technologists, including on HN, were warning how bad this was going to be.
Unfortunately AGI is orders of magnitude more impactful than Web 2.0 and social media.
- DinoCoder99 3y ago> Unfortunately AGI is orders of magnitude more impactful than Web 2.0 and social media. It's worth noting that this "impact" might appear as the production of conversation and discourse so unhelpful and unwanted it clogs the internet. I think comparison to the email spam explosion is probably the best available!
- diego_sandoval 3y agoI don't know what kind of content will be most popular in 2025, but I know that the most popular content in 2026 will be written with a pen on a piece of paper.
- cjohnson318 3y agoMan, I haven't heard/thought of Web 2.0 in a long time. I miss Blogger and fail-whale era Twitter.