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@thomasfuchs lies, Silverlight is gonna replace Flash!!! 😏

@thomasfuchs My nephew works in tech and he's pulled this shit with me on crypto/blockchain and NFTs and every time I'm like, "Eh, I don't think so, guess we'll see." To his credit, he didn't bother reaching out to prophesize about AI to me 😂

@thomasfuchs Lol this was great, and so true. Gotta love hype cycles, especially when they get out of control

@thomasfuchs Mars! We are going to settle Mars

@thomasfuchs "The safety of steel between pedal and wheel."

@thomasfuchs expert systems at least had the promise of bieng reliable

@thomasfuchs Buy a plot on Mars now!

@thomasfuchs this man is a prophet

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pen computing seems the most doable of this list.

@thomasfuchs there was that whole metaverse land rush. Like better get some virtual real estate now before it all... goes?

Was also a way of younger people locked out of the real housing market to have some sort of property ownership. Not sure how having a metaverse island makes you less homeless.

@thomasfuchs I think what you are referring it possible obviously you leading a great operation

@thomasfuchs can someone explain to me how they tied crypto to a fiat currency? Where is the inherent value in a bitcoin?

#cryptocurrency

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640KB should be enough for everyone.

@thomasfuchs @steltenpower MOOCs will replace education and badges your degrees

@thomasfuchs dafuq is pen computing?

@thomasfuchs Looking over this list of over-hyped technologies, I am so glad I did not get involved with any of them. I like tried, true, and practical tools.

@thomasfuchs "Experts system are inevitable". Can someone explain this on ?

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That makes me wonder: what are the most transformative technologies of the past 50 years that everybody just shrugged and adopted because they weren't backed by the filthy rich?

@thomasfuchs One could think that the crystal balls of past IT visionaries were already running on an early LLM. You are so talented!

Thanks for the laughs!

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mongodb

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WEB

SCALE

@thomasfuchs never forgot the "Mars in 2025 !". Still waiting to flee the madness of humanity 🌎

@thomasfuchs https://alex.party/posts/2025-05-05-the-future-of-web-development-is-ai-get-on-or-get-left-behind/

@thomasfuchs Something something XHTML

@thomasfuchs The real tragedy is that Flash was long dead by the time NFTs came around. 🙃

(But for real in hindsight I kinda miss Flash sometimes.)

@thomasfuchs I'm reading this post on google glass and then writing it up in a knol

@thomasfuchs And forty years of no need to learn to touchtype bc everything will be voice input. 😹

@thomasfuchs AI! AI! AI!