Asklemmy

This is the grift economy baby! Everything is a gotcha.

Holy loaded question batman! Yeah I'm not gonna take this seriously with you just making these sweeping assertions with no evidence.

The technologies themselves aren’t grifts, but grifters are notoriously “first-adopters” of new technologies.

I'm hoping repairable tech is going to become more and more common. So far neither Framework nor Fairphone seem like grifters while some that came before didn't end up fulfilling their promises.

Fediverse

At this point, the only thing that wouldn't be a grift is a proof that P=NP, so that we can break all DRM effortlessly.

I wouldn’t say all “AI” was a grift. Machine learning is a useful tool, like a hammer, it’s just not a magic genie for everything. Always has been, always will be.

Same with blockchain, albeit in a much narrower niche. I do think it’s a terrible system for a widely-used currency, though.

Same with quantum computing. It’s a niche.

The pattern is that Tech Bros inflate something narrowly interesting into a “it’s going to ascend the human race if you give us enough money” FOMO thing.

…And, currently, the next target seems to be space travel.

Again, I emphasize. Very useful in certain niches, like science. Stupendously impractical outside of them.

The FOSS, for one.