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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by mbesto on Friday August 11, 2017 @11:18AM (#14990520)
> It's a solution in search of a problem, like so much good, early technology.

Care to elaborate and share examples of other "good, earl technology"? Typically when I hear "solution in search of a problem", I start thinking "this is going nowhere".

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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by pfarrell on Friday August 11, 2017 @11:32AM (#14990677)
Google Wave comes to mind. Great tech, but marketed to the wrong group (developers) and didn't solve any problems I had at the time.
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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by AndrewKemendo on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:10PM (#14991236)
Pretty much any technology you use now was a solution in need of a problem. PDAs and Touchscreen tablets are the most fitting examples.
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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by mbesto on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:10PM (#14992047)
Sorry, maybe I didn't get your original point - I thought you were insinuating that ICO was a technology in search a problem and that all super successful (i.e. good) technologies starts this way (which I would disagree).
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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by AndrewKemendo on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:28PM (#14992230)
I thought you were insinuating that ICO was a technology in search a problem and that all super successful technologies starts this way.

Not insinuating, that's my claim - nearly every big technology was too early (eg. a solution looking for a problem - whether in form or scale) before it blew up years or decades later. I don't think that's controversial. It's also true that a lot of trash that never makes it are also solutions in search of problems.

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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by mbesto on Friday August 11, 2017 @05:23PM (#14994436)
I think you're confusing their adoption curve with a problem they solve. For example - PDA's certainly solved a problem (having a mobile/digital calendar), they just didn't solve enough problems when they were introduced.
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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by darkerside on Friday August 11, 2017 @02:34PM (#14992857)
The entire Internet
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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by genon on Friday August 11, 2017 @03:26PM (#14993316)
I don't know if this just sounded like a zinger to you when you wrote it, but "the Internet" is a prime example of anything but a solution in search of a problem.
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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by coderzach on Friday August 11, 2017 @05:13PM (#14994339)
What big problem did the early internet solve? Sending messages between universities? Why not just use a phone?
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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by genon on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:46PM (#14995890)
ARPANET/the Internet was developed to facilitate communication, remote access and data sharing between different computer systems. Are you sticking with "Why not just use a phone?".
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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by darkerside on Sunday August 13, 2017 @10:56AM (#15003128)
20+ years ago the majority of the world had little to no understanding of the internet. People with technical backgrounds may have had theoretical ideas about how connecting the world online would radically change it. But it was exactly a "solution in search of a problem" in the same vein as decentralized computing through blockchain technology is today. A world where the digital world was as critical as the real one seemed ridiculous on its face back then.
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