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started with crypto -> blockchain -> NFT -> AI what’s the next big bubble?

glitchc 2y ago
BI aka Business Intelligence of course /s
rsynnott 2y ago
You missed metaverses. Also there was another AI one; there was a smallish computer vision oriented bubble early last decade. Main product was a lot of money wasted on putative self-driving cars, but there was other stuff.
- prmoustache 2y ago
  I don't think metaverses really interested anyone appart from Facebook in recent years. Who invested in those really? I think everybody remember that all but a few addicts got quickly bored of second life in the mid 00's and it was not worth trying a second time.
- dredmorbius 2y ago
  Also wearables, VR/AR (possibly included in your computer-vision category), 3DTV, nanotech, tablet computers (possibly breaking out), brain-computer interfaces, IoT (AI is the new IoT, IMO), 3D printing, Big Data, Theranos (and other highly-customised healthcare, think 23andMe).
  - rsynnott 2y ago
    Oh, huh. Totally forgot about IoT, yeah. I think tablet computers are a _bit_ different; they were never really sold as changing the world, and have carved out a definite niche (certainly more so than any of that other stuff).
    - dredmorbius 2y ago
      Totally forgot about IoT That's harsh, dude! ;-) Tablets: These should be revolutionary. In practice, they're not, and I'm trying to sort out why. The biggest gripe is that there's no single use for which a tablet is a preferred option, other than as an e-book reader, and numerous others for which it is distinctly less-than-optimal, with smaller smart (or "dumb") phones being better for on-the-go comms, and full-featured laptops or notebooks being preferably for virtually all compute applications. I'd made that case in a Diaspora* post a few years back: <https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/880e5c403edb013918e1002590d8e506 https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/880e5c403edb013918e100...>. The most detailed critique is in this comment to that thread, with a (sorry, poorly-rendering at most screen-widths) table: <https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/880e5c403edb013918e1002590d8e506#956cc690403301391d35002590d8e506 https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/880e5c403edb013918e100...> I've used tablets for about a decade now (first an Android Samsung device, 3+ years on an Onyx BOOX e-ink ebook-reader, though it's really an Android tablet), and my assessment of them as less-than-serious compute devices remains, even with the addition of an external keyboard and Termux (a Linux-on-Android environment). There are simply too many compromises from the Android environment. And everything I've seen about iOS suggests that they would be worse as a general-compute device, despite some clear wins over Android/Google/Samsung elsewhere. I'm not sure if tablets can break through or not. I'm leaning increasingly to a number of independent devices: tablet (for ebooks and podcasts), laptop (for real work), a small phone, preferably feature, possibly something like the Light Phone, independent image/video and audio capture (dedicated camera, point-and-shoot or DSLR, handheld audio recorder, see NYT's reviews: <https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-voice-recorder/ https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-voice-re...> ... and note that reporters make heavy use of such equipment). At this point I'm not even sure I want a general-purpose phone of any sort given the heavy abuse of that channel (smishing / robocalls / fraud / harassment), though a wide-spread alternative doesn't seem to have emerged yet.
AshamedCaptain 2y ago
Can I ask for one that does not involve GPUs?

BI aka Business Intelligence of course /s

You missed metaverses. Also there was another AI one; there was a smallish computer vision oriented bubble early last decade. Main product was a lot of money wasted on putative self-driving cars, but there was other stuff.

prmoustache 2y ago
I don't think metaverses really interested anyone appart from Facebook in recent years. Who invested in those really? I think everybody remember that all but a few addicts got quickly bored of second life in the mid 00's and it was not worth trying a second time.
dredmorbius 2y ago
Also wearables, VR/AR (possibly included in your computer-vision category), 3DTV, nanotech, tablet computers (possibly breaking out), brain-computer interfaces, IoT (AI is the new IoT, IMO), 3D printing, Big Data, Theranos (and other highly-customised healthcare, think 23andMe).
- rsynnott 2y ago
  Oh, huh. Totally forgot about IoT, yeah. I think tablet computers are a _bit_ different; they were never really sold as changing the world, and have carved out a definite niche (certainly more so than any of that other stuff).
  - dredmorbius 2y ago
    Totally forgot about IoT That's harsh, dude! ;-) Tablets: These should be revolutionary. In practice, they're not, and I'm trying to sort out why. The biggest gripe is that there's no single use for which a tablet is a preferred option, other than as an e-book reader, and numerous others for which it is distinctly less-than-optimal, with smaller smart (or "dumb") phones being better for on-the-go comms, and full-featured laptops or notebooks being preferably for virtually all compute applications. I'd made that case in a Diaspora* post a few years back: <https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/880e5c403edb013918e1002590d8e506 https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/880e5c403edb013918e100...>. The most detailed critique is in this comment to that thread, with a (sorry, poorly-rendering at most screen-widths) table: <https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/880e5c403edb013918e1002590d8e506#956cc690403301391d35002590d8e506 https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/880e5c403edb013918e100...> I've used tablets for about a decade now (first an Android Samsung device, 3+ years on an Onyx BOOX e-ink ebook-reader, though it's really an Android tablet), and my assessment of them as less-than-serious compute devices remains, even with the addition of an external keyboard and Termux (a Linux-on-Android environment). There are simply too many compromises from the Android environment. And everything I've seen about iOS suggests that they would be worse as a general-compute device, despite some clear wins over Android/Google/Samsung elsewhere. I'm not sure if tablets can break through or not. I'm leaning increasingly to a number of independent devices: tablet (for ebooks and podcasts), laptop (for real work), a small phone, preferably feature, possibly something like the Light Phone, independent image/video and audio capture (dedicated camera, point-and-shoot or DSLR, handheld audio recorder, see NYT's reviews: <https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-voice-recorder/ https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-voice-re...> ... and note that reporters make heavy use of such equipment). At this point I'm not even sure I want a general-purpose phone of any sort given the heavy abuse of that channel (smishing / robocalls / fraud / harassment), though a wide-spread alternative doesn't seem to have emerged yet.

AshamedCaptain 2y ago

Can I ask for one that does not involve GPUs?