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[-] ZDL@lazysoci.al 2 points 6 days ago

Do you want me to list the techbrodude technologies that were "not going anywhere" in past decades that have effectively died outside of tiny die-hard communities still living a delusion?

Remember when the Metaverse was the next great thing that wasn't going anywhere? Remember when cryptocurrency was going to wipe out banking forevermore? Remember when NFTs were going to revolutionize artists getting paid for their work? Segway or its somehow-lamer cousin "hoverboards"? Augmented Reality? 3D TVs? Theranos? Google Wave?

Hell, just go visit the Google Graveyard for a list of "hot" technologies that withered and died on the vine. (And quite a few lame technologies that shouldn't have ever even been on the vine.)

Remember all that?

But this time the techbrodudes have it right, despite there not being a viable business model; despite every AI vendor in the world burning through money faster than dumping that same cash into a forest fire. It's not going anywhere!

Every grift has two parties: the grifter and the sucker. You're not the former.

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