The last 10 years or so of tech: 2013: Blockchain!...

draconigen

@thomasfuchs

8 January at 18:49 | Open on packmates.org

Noxy 🐾

@thomasfuchs VR at least has some real distinction tho! Facebook buying Oculus should never have been allowed, though..

8 January at 18:55 | Open on packmates.org

Piko Starsider :verified_paw:

@thomasfuchs VR is not like anything else. Corporate hacks tried to hype their shit vision of VR, with stuff that does work better with screens, but there are truly unique experiences in VR, that makes it worth it. Despite of corporations trying to take advantage of it, and not because of it.

I don't want work meetings in VR, I want to be an animal person with friends, and that's not easy to monetize. And I hope it remains that way. So people pay artists directly when they want a custom avatar for example. I also play games but it's usually much more intense and tiring, so it's kind of an entertainment category of its own.

@thomasfuchs VR is not like anything else. Corporate hacks tried to hype their shit vision of VR, with stuff that does work better with screens, but there are truly unique experiences in VR, that makes it worth it. Despite of corporations trying to take advantage of it, and not because of it.

I don't want work meetings in VR, I want to be an animal person with friends, and that's not easy to monetize. And I hope it remains that way. So people pay artists directly when they want a custom avatar for...

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9 January at 0:12 | Open on valenciapa.ws

Fikri Rahmat Nurhidayat

@thomasfuchs interesting take indeed.

9 January at 4:38 | Open on emacs.ch

Phaethon

@thomasfuchs
You missed:
2022: Elon Musk! He's like Henry Ford, but slower and worse!

9 January at 8:24 | Open on mastodon.social

Clara Sohet 🍉J-2💕🌈

@thomasfuchs
2007 : Twitter ! It's like a blog, but shorter and worse!
2009 : Facebook Pages ! It's like a website, but more difficult to reach!

9 January at 8:29 | Open on eldritch.cafe

Deuchnord

@thomasfuchs quite unfair for VR (it's really not like monitors), but still valid

9 January at 12:10 | Open on mamot.fr

Andrew Zonenberg

@thomasfuchs I sincerely hope the LLM bubble bursts as fast as the NFT bubble. It feels worse right now (being deployed by a lot more companies at greater scale).

9 January at 14:44 | Open on ioc.exchange

Pippin

Algorithms are supposed to give you correct, predictable, reproducible results (one reason I don't like calling the heuristics corporate social media uses "algorithms" — see paragraph 2 here.) AI just… doesn't. So it's just like an algorithm in the sense that it… doesn't have any of the defining features of an algorithm. 🤷‍♂️

9 January at 17:32 | Open on floof.org