> AI is a long term trend, next is more products on top of AI. Just like the internet.
This is legitimately just the same damn hype train the tech sector is constantly attempting to create. Now AI is the next internet. Before that it was the metaverse. Before that it was NFTs. Before that it was cryptocurrency. Before that it was quantum. Before that it was VR. Before that it was AR.
None of those were the revolutions postured by techno-fetishistic CEOs. Most stick around in some capacity, like VR and AR, and the argument can be made that those have a future. Blockchains certainly have a future as it's a highly useful technology, even if the financial vehicle made by it is utterly useless. The metaverse is Dead on Arrival because nobody ever wanted it in the first damn place, apart from the speculators betting money on it.
> Blockchains certainly have a future as it's a highly useful technology
No trolling here; I promise. Are you saying that blockchain is already "highly useful technology", or that we will in the future? From my perspective, it is a very cool technology concept that has yet to demonstrate any major commercial value. I also seriously doubt it will be commercially valuable ever; it has already existed for more than 10 years without any killer app (ignoring shitcoins).
> This is legitimately just the same damn hype train the tech sector is constantly attempting to create. Now AI is the next internet. Before that it was the metaverse. Before that it was NFTs. Before that it was cryptocurrency. Before that it was quantum. Before that it was VR. Before that it was AR.
Neither of those things you listed were mainstream trends. If you can not distinguish between fads and major trends that is your problem.
Internet, Mobile, Cloud and now AI are technology trends with mainstream buy in from the biggest companies in the world.
> If you can not distinguish between fads and major trends that is your problem.
You're distinguishing based on hindsight. It's mainstream if it succeeds and if it doesn't, it was a fad. How much did Zuckerburg put into Facebook's metaverse projects? I believe it was $46 billion. Then there was Decentraland too, those were as mainstream as it got. You had tons of internet-famous people cashing in for hundreds of thousands of dollars just for selling their original copies of reddit memes. How is that not at least somewhat mainstream?
I have zero doubt whatsoever that after the AI bubble lets go, I'll be having this same damn conversation with someone else and they'll be saying AI was a fad. That's my entire point.
Only zuck was metaverse obsessed. Decentraland I've never heard of it, so it was not mainstream at all. NFTs were never mainstream. All of your examples are bad.
AI has buy in from the entire tech sector. Just like the cloud, mobile and internet did.
This is legitimately just the same damn hype train the tech sector is constantly attempting to create. Now AI is the next internet. Before that it was the metaverse. Before that it was NFTs. Before that it was cryptocurrency. Before that it was quantum. Before that it was VR. Before that it was AR.
None of those were the revolutions postured by techno-fetishistic CEOs. Most stick around in some capacity, like VR and AR, and the argument can be made that those have a future. Blockchains certainly have a future as it's a highly useful technology, even if the financial vehicle made by it is utterly useless. The metaverse is Dead on Arrival because nobody ever wanted it in the first damn place, apart from the speculators betting money on it.