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@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

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@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!