The "AI changes everything" people rhyme remarkably well with the "blockchain changes everything" people.
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@mattblaze Almost like they're the same people...🤔
@mattblaze weirdly, they’re a lot of the same people…
Yes, but unfortunately the "AI changes everything" people seem to be a lot more vocal and getting more attention.
It's just like the way the Segway completely changed the way cities work.
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segway escooters are quite popular where i live. there are almost as many escooters as there are bikes. they make the outdoors cleaner, safer and quiter.
unfortunately, AI slop is indeed everywhere too, changing everything. posters, menus, invitations...
@mattblaze funny you should say that, that kinda all went into e-scooters, and rental e-scooters have absolutely had an impact on cities
@navi it seems like scooters had a modest impact, probably mostly offsetting personally owned bicycles. I don’t think they’ve come anywhere close to “changing how cities work” (the supposed promise of the segway). A thing can be successful without being “revolutionary”.
@mattblaze Scooters, at least in my area, aren't changing much, even though we're seeing more of them.
Biggest impact seems to be the amount of injuries people are being seen for. Kind of like this decade's high impact aerobics, or yoga.
I think one can argue rental e-bikes are changing the way London works. A grester impact in two/three years than standard bikes have made in the last 20/30 years.
Especially amongst the young.
@mattblaze @stuart @navi It's somewhere in the middle, I suppose. London has far more and better bike lanes today than they did 20 years ago. And they're well used. Perhaps not "radically" different, but appreciably different nonetheless.
@mweiss @stuart @navi In almost every city I've seen, the shift to better bike infrastructure started before wide adoption of the e-bike or segway or e-scooter by years. I don't think this change was driven by new technology as much as by preferences that were increasing demand for or bike lanes for other reasons. The bicycle is a 150 year old technology, after all.
The crucial changd, if if happens, is to car ownership. Already I think less than 50% in inner London concentrated in low income groups (78%) who primarily use puic transport - bus fares are just £1.75. Rental e-bikes are not cheap so are additionally helping make car ownership an option amongst young professionals.
Hence they may be the tipping point to car ownership being reduced to a small minority in inner London. Wifh the transformation of road infrastructure to reflect demand pushing it harder in a virtuous circle.
.Importantly it is looking like a generational change to the blight that was cars in London.
People don't collect Segways as a commodity.
#Cryptocurrency has held its value while #AI is crashing.
Pick one.
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We never had a Segway bubble. The AI one could change things quite a bit when it bursts 😃
@mattblaze they want to believe!