Touchscreens were for me a lesson in humbleness: when they were first introduced, I was utterly convinced that they would never take off.
Inspired by the responses to the previous toot, I open the issue: what was you most blatantly wrong technological prophecy?
Mine:
- I was sure touchscreens would never take off.
- I believed that the idea of registering digital art on the blockchain was ridiculous
@entreprecariat 'I believed that the idea of registering digital art on the blockchain was ridiculous'
What changed your mind?
@rra let's put it like this: I still find it ridiculous, but I can't ignore the economy that NFT and stuff are "generating".
@entreprecariat do you have numbers on this economy?
@rra from wp: "The NFT market value tripled in 2020, reaching more than $250 million. During the first quarter of 2021, NFT sales exceeded $2 billion."
@entreprecariat @rra the size of the economy doesn't make it a good idea. NFTs are just very enviromentally unfriendly and basically unenforceable derivatives.
The "unenforceable" part is what makes them a borderline scam.
@entreprecariat @rysiek @rra if your initial conclusion was simply that it was ridiculous, you were absolutely not wrong. after the hype explosion earlier this year the space is now mostly a cesspool of crypto pump-and-dumpers (NFTs help create a smokescreen of legitimacy around crypto in general) with a few diehard artists still begging for attention at the fringes.
@entreprecariat @rra that's why I'm not ignoring it. I'm pushing back.