AI is a rare example of an extremely hyped thing that almost everyone still underestimates the impact of in even the medium-term. what are other examples of this from the past couple of decades besides the iPhone? i'm curious what we can learn.

Aug 15, 2022 · 8:22 PM UTC

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ESG
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Nanotech
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Democracy risks, climate change
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Well, according to #GPT3... (please excuse its repeat of your examples) 1. Internet 2. Social Media 3. Smartphones 4. Cloud computing 5. Big data 6. The sharing economy 7. Artificial Intelligence 8. VR 9. AR 10. IoT
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You could perhaps just say the internet in general, but specifically in the shorter term, I think we grossly underestimate what the proliferation of social media is and will do to our societies.
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ETFs?
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TikTok - and in particular the switch everywhere from a focus on the social graph to algorithm-driven content
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the web browser, and internet commerce specifically taking a credit card online
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e commerce
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