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.

@maxleibman

"Groupthink"

@EthicalProfessor
Yes! My thought was: people who can’t think for themselves… the very definition of β€˜groupthink’. Such a silly thing to aspire to. ☹️

@maxleibman

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

@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

@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
@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
@maxleibman I like being left behind. It’s less crowded
@maxleibman Pivot to video! Pivot to video faster! πŸ™ƒ
@datum @maxleibman Long form video essays! No, short documentaries! No, 10 second clips! No, 5 second clips that auto skip to the next one!
@maxleibman @Lazarou
Anyone fancy an NFT at a nice discount?
@maxleibman
And all I can reply is PLEASE LEAVE ME THE FUCK FINALLY BEHIND AND GO AHEAD! RUN! RUN TO THE HORIZON! BE FREE!
@maxleibman @aburka
My left behind is getting tired.

@maxleibman @mergy Psst! Want some tulipsβ€½

The article below mentions it didn't 'devastate' or 'significantly damage' the Dutch economy. But I read further and it does mention the effect on the individual.

Anyway, tulips?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dutch_tulip_bulb_market_bubble.asp

Tulipmania: About the Dutch Tulip Bulb Market Bubble

The Dutch tulip bulb market bubble is seen as the first financial bubble. It occurred in Holland in the early 1600s when speculation inflated tulip bulbs’ value.

Investopedia
@maxleibman @aburka You really need to get on board with 3D TV, or you’re going to be left behind.

@digitalrodent
Fun fact: These things made me realize at the age of 36 what it really means that my brain doesn't use the input signal of my right eye since I was born and that other people percieve the world in a way I can't and will never be able to percieve.

I know what 3D means in theory but I have no idea what it actually looks like. I sat in front of one of these tvs and was like "Well, the picture looks exactly like my tv at home." πŸ˜…
@maxleibman @aburka

@maxleibman You really need to get on board with capitalism, and get left behind.

Wait.

@maxleibman crypto! You forgot crypto!
@patrickhadfield Lumped in with blockchain.

@maxleibman

You can't be 'left behind' if you didn't want to go in the first place.

@maxleibman What happened to NFTs? Did I get left behind there?
@maxleibman
There are some really weird parallels here between this stuff and the Rapture. PLEASE, GOD, TAKE THEM AND LEAVE THE REST OF US BEHIND. πŸ™πŸΌ
@maxleibman dude, we're pivoting to #quantum. You're not going to believe the benefits of #quantum. You saw scale. You saw hyperscale. Now witness #quantum. It's AI. It's not AI. It's both AI and not AI at the same time. It's scale, and AI, and #quantum. It's THE bubble. It's not the next bubble. It's #quantum hyperbubble.
@maxleibman Guess I'm 3x left behind and counting then.
@maxleibman I'm good, I'm a slow walker anyway
@maxleibman I vibe coded my own metaverse on the blockchain with AI.
@jordan you forgot the NFTs in there. They must be in there somewhere. @maxleibman
@artcollisions @jordan @maxleibman Cloud too. It has its uses, but because it exists doesn't mean you *have* to use it for everything. Cloudflare outages, prices going up, container/virtual machine escapes, data access by hackers, cloud just means someone else's computer, possibly with similar problems, possibly with new cloud centric problems.

@maxleibman

Why does this remind me of the Heavens Gate folks?

@maxleibman I'm just coming up to speed on the printing press.
@maxleibman May it be this generations, The Left Behind book series