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According to Lemmy Users: Blockchain was a grift, AI is a grift, Quantum computing will be a future grift. So according to you what new and emergent technologies are not / will not be a grift? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Blockchain was an incredibly transparent grift. AI is a fascinating technology that's being used and abused by the worst people on the planet and will probably cause society as we know it to collapse. Quantum computers are a very niche, very specific tool that are super cool but get talked about weirdly by the media.

Virtual reality is neat and I think it hasn't really been used as a grift yet. I don't think we've really solved its UX nor explored all its possibilities. It seems like as a consumer device it will be a niche product, but the applications for companies and organizations are very untapped.

[–] Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

didn't meta and apple try turning VR into the 'Next big thing' very recently, i mean they got distracted with LLMs but they could always try again.

I still dont think blockchain; the tech itself is a grift, it does what it promised to do(not BTC, other coins that improved on it, BTC itself has turned into a big game of chicken), has uses beyond its initial purpose. Its just that the tech attracted grifters like flies, and their actions were transparent(yet people still fell for it)