Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a...
by ynx on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:20PM
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A lot of self-proclaimed technologists counterintuitively love to see technology fail, especially when they predicted so ahead of time.
That's some frustrating shit, because it rewards the least patient and surface-level analyses which (correctly!) identify deficiencies and lulls in activity, but mislabels them as stagnation or dead-ends or fundamental flaws.
It took us 20 years from General Magic to a passable iPhone.
VR will take time, and AI is likely more fruitful to prioritize currently (not saying that's a bad idea!) - but we don't yet have enough historical perspective to declare VR - or even (ick) crypto - as bad directions.
That's some frustrating shit, because it rewards the least patient and surface-level analyses which (correctly!) identify deficiencies and lulls in activity, but mislabels them as stagnation or dead-ends or fundamental flaws.
It took us 20 years from General Magic to a passable iPhone.
VR will take time, and AI is likely more fruitful to prioritize currently (not saying that's a bad idea!) - but we don't yet have enough historical perspective to declare VR - or even (ick) crypto - as bad directions.