Imagine wanting to get a pic on to your computer and not being able to. Yes, the pre-digital camera world. Digital camera invented > photos exploded > iPhone > photo explosion^100 > Facebook > explosion^100^100 Took 46 years. Blockchain is the computer. It's 13 yrs old.https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1399400012279209989 …
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So bringing a photo onto the computer was significantly harder than going to the moon? Why, yes, it was.
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You missed my point here. Computers were instantly and obviously useful, and grew more so over time. The same is true for any useful technology. The only analogue to cryptocurrency I can think of is string theory, which has also been promising to change the world, just you wait
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They used to compare it to email or the internet. Seems like people have had to radically shift the goal posts since neither of those took this long to find a practical use.
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Right analogy, wrong subject. Pinboard was talking about the Oracle problem, which is comparable to the digital camera IMO. You’re talking about the blockchain, which is, as you said, the new internet.
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Flew an object safely*. Would take another 10 years until the world trusted the technology enough to send a human.
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Oh sure, engineering is fine, but its parents were still hoping it would be a doctor.
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