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"CmdrTaco dismisses the ipod in 2001" and "Ballmer dismisses the iphone in 2007" have been so burned into tech's collective memory that people are incredibly gunshy about offering even the most basic criticisms.
Note how much worse the social consequences are for poo-poohing the thing that turns out to be successful than for being dead wrong about the thing being "world changing", Y replacing X, etc. That is tech's social reproduction in action, a bad dream our society must be shaken awake from.
Jun 6, 2023 at 4:44pmWeb
Show threadKeith Nowak 🌮Jun 6, 2023
@jplebreton Agree. But the shame of getting it wrong follows you FOREVER!
Show threadsolientJun 6, 2023
@jplebreton recalling the frantic "thought leader" masturbation about what a game changer the Segway was going to be.
Show threadRob “CmdrTaco” MaldaJun 6, 2023
@jplebreton i was still right :)
Show threadMechanicalJediJun 7, 2023
@jplebreton I'm still not mega positive about this one. People didn't want to wear fairly light glasses for 3D TV, and the videos mainly showed flat screens hovering in space. Battery life won't support a watch through of Interstellar, though that seems solvable in the future. I wouldn't want to wear this to record video in order to watch the video on same either. It's all cool, but not IMO compelling enough.