Every decade has at least one of these buzzwords (multimedia, internet/ online, social media, mobile app, blockchain, cryptocoins, micropayment, delivery, ai,...).. They can be used to attract dumb investor's money but they have their useful sides too.

Ok. They are just buzzwords which outline a set of tools. They are worthless without a realizable concept with a benefit for the end-user. And the use of the right tool for the job. So, I'm not sure about useful cryptocoins and blockchain use cases (I wouldn't count financial speculation as particularly useful).

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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Every time somebody starts raving about some tech, it'll turn out to be a classic hype cycle.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This isnt productive, and the hype is the largest I have ever seen. Ireland–a wealthy developed tech savvy nation–isnt building new homes to address their housing crisis because this shit is taking all the energy and water.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's true. The tech bros are playing the market by blowing bubble after bubble and raising the stakes each time.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gotta ask what the supervillain-ass end game is.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 points 1 month ago

Some think they can crash everything, burn it to the ground, to then rebuild it according to their designs.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That graph is peak bullshit.

Just because you believe the hype, it doesn't mean there's a milder use case for your application.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 6 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately LLM do have one profitable application: generating spam and astroturfing

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

"According to this chart we made up without any explanation, blockchain and nfts and metaverse are going to be pretty useful tools in the future. Just because they were trendy once."

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Excuse me the Segway never came back up

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 points 1 month ago

The tech itself though is still used in hoverboards, robots and some other self balancing micro mobility devices.