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There were no smartphones in 2000, so the Web was overvalued at that point in time... until we all started carrying the Web in our pockets in the form of a port
by adamrezich 2y ago
There were no smartphones in 2000, so the Web was overvalued at that point in time... until we all started carrying the Web in our pockets in the form of a portable rectangle.
Given that this is the case, why can't this be analogously true of “AI” as well? There's plenty of reason to believe that we're hitting a wall, such that, to progress further, said wall must be overcome by means of one or more breakthroughs.
- jmward01 2y ago'smartphones' needed a reason to exist, the internet provided that. I doubt we would have had them without it. AI will drive whole new product categories that didn't exist that will then transform our society even more.
- spunker540 2y agoI think everyone knew the internet would change everything and thus be very valuable. At the time the web was the primary manifestation of the internet. Domain names felt like an oil rush to carve up the internet. But it was actually a rush to carve up the web, and no one realized yet that things like Google search and app stores would make domain names far less valuable over time.