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1994: “the internet means there’ll be no more governments!” 2018: “blockchain means there’ll be no more governments!” Both nonsense, yes. But the internet still turned out to be pretty important, and it was partly because of the things that prompted people to talk like that.
I think the future impact of truly game-changing technologies (e.g. the smartphone) was immediately clear to geeks from the beginning. How is that the case for the blockchain? I've heard 100s of pitches about it and I still have no idea how it is supposed to matter
To complete your series -- 2001: "the impact of [the Segway] in the twenty-first century will be just like what Henry Ford did at the beginning of the twentieth century".
To be clear, I understand why its proponents *think* it will matter. I just think almost none of it is sound reasoning.
Obviously. My point is that the delusional character of some descriptions of it have a little bit of signal deep inside
Not sure that's true. Game-changing tech will generally get hyped up in delusional ways (though not always), but inversely many things that get hyped to the moon don't actually end up being important...
re blockchain: I'm glad it's not just me. :)
Aren’t you CTO of a block-chain company...? https://doc.ai/about#team
Actually, many were skeptical about both mobile and smart phones usefulness at the start. But here’s a great info graphic of blockchain uses which are missing several other enticing aspectspic.twitter.com/4WLVMo9KXD
The more I hear about blockchain the more it feels like a sexed up database a la Russian dolls
how would you incentivize diverse and wide community to build cutting edge machine learning systems at scale not employed / captured by a single company like google ?
replace 'machine learning' with 'relational database' or 'cloud'
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