• Erasmus@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    My dad said this exact same thing to me in the early 2000s with the dawn of the early web. He claimed it was only a fad that would soon die away.

    Yup. Fad.

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      11 months ago

      People are saying that about crypto and AI today.

      I mean, crypto might actually be a fad, but AI is certainly going to be as impactful as the internet was. Yes there will be booms and crashes but overall it will transform society.

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        11 months ago

        I would say crypto is more a failure than a fad. If it had been successful, people would have continued to use it.

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        11 months ago

        That’s the thing. Every big thing has been misidentified as a fad.

        But also you don’t hear about that other 10 000 things that were called a fad and ended up being a fad.

        Crypto might very well be a fad. At least only because of public misuse as an unregulated gambling market. It had potential to be great, but in my opinion, the in-between time of being a scammer’s paradise has killed it for the near future.

        There is pretty much no way “AI” is a fad. It won’t replace everything, but integrating it into CAD tools, writing tools, and multimedia tools is pretty much inevitable.

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        For sure. If you’re reading this and haven’t messed around with an llm like chatgpt yet, do yourself a favor and ask it some questions or to perform some simple tasks. Like a search engine, using it is a skill you’ll need to develop, and like anything you read on the internet you need to use due diligence, because it can be wrong. But as long you are aware of its strengths and faults, imo it’s the probably the best research tool since search engines. You’re doing yourself a disservice ignoring it if you think it’s a fad

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      11 months ago

      This was a lot earlier, so I was a little more within my rights and it never technically did, but when I saw early demonstrations of HTML 1.0 websites, I said, “it’s interesting, but it will never replace Gopher.” I’d say it still counts.

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        11 months ago

        lol, I recall being in college in the 90s and us using, I think it was USENET groups. Email was just becoming a thing as well. Everything was very wild west as it is compared to today.

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      11 months ago

      To be fair, the web of that time period no longer really exists. It was replaced with something new that is almost completely profit and ad driven. From that perspective, the Internet you knew back then could be considered a fad.