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0 pointsbrookst8mo ago0 comments

I was there. There was massive skepticism, endless jokes about internet-enabled toasters and the uselessness and undesirability of connecting everything to the internet, people bemoaning the loss of critical skills like using library card catalogs, all the same stuff we see today.

In 20 years AI will be pervasive and nobody will remember being one of the luddites.

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relaxing8mo ago

I was there too. You’re forgetting internet addiction, pornography, stranger danger, hacking and cybercrime, etc.

Whether the opposition was massive or not, in proportion to the enthusiasm and optimism about the globally connected information superhighway, isn’t something I can quantify, so I’ll bow out of the conversation.

watwut8mo ago

Toasters in fact dot need internet and jokes about them are entirely valid. Quite a lot of devices that dont need internet have useless internet slapped on them.

Internet of things was largely BS.

brookstOP8mo ago

That’s my point. People are making the same mistake today: hey, there’s this idiotic use case, therefore the entire technology is useless and will be a fad.

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