Mastodawn

You really need to get on board with blockchain, or you're going to be left behind.

You really need to get on board with the metaverse, or you're going to be left behind.

You really need to get on board with AI, or you're going to be left behind.

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DB 6d ago

@maxleibman And the free world came to an end with Y2K

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Shannon Clark 5d ago

@lawyersgunsnmoney @maxleibman Y2K is different from the other three.

Y2K not being a big deal was because thousands (likely millions) of people and companies did a lot of work for years to make it a non-issue.

(I was there - one company I worked at had over 1200 internally written applications pre-y2k - in the mid-1990’s web 1 era they employed over 2000 full time programmers. After y2k remediation we had it down to 600 apps which had all been updated and tested

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DB 5d ago

@Rycaut I’m aware of all the work that went into it. My clients put a fuck ton of work in. My comment was really more tongue in cheek, so no offense intended. I’m not a programmer, architect or computer science guy but I’ve worked with those folks for 40 years and as Max was saying there is always something. @maxleibman

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Shannon Clark

@lawyersgunsnmoney @maxleibman understood - and thanks for the clarification - it is actually an example however of when a whole lot of people do the hard work really amazing things can get done - but also don't "seem" like they were hard or difficult or much happened - most people heard all the hype and over the top predictions - then saw that not much happened and assumed "it was all just hype" - in many cases not realizing that it was lots of people working hard that led to it being so