It was right there with flying cars and domed cities on the moon. That was part of the whole Disneyworld/OMNI Magazine promise about life in the year 2000.

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    It has.

    The fact that we’re in others people’s faces isn’t a bug, unlike before we actually can confront each other and see their arguments, in the past we just made up what the other side believed.

    This is a huge improvement, and we can disprove obvious lies to everyone except the truly stupid.

    Yeah, growing pains, but still a massive improvement.

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      13 days ago

      Totally agree. It’s an improvement, but there was a lot of hype around it, which lead to inflated expectations. As a matter of fact, nowadays we have similarly silly expectations about AI. History repeats itself…

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        13 days ago

        Yeah, we thought it would solve everything.

        It solved problems that uncovered a much deeper set of underlying problems… :)