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   Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 04:41:14 JST Jacek Wesołowski

   I just remembered the NFT hype was only three years ago, and has already fallen into complete obscurity.

   This in turn made me remember a Razem National Council session back 2019 (I think), where we were discussing self-driving cars as a potential future challenge to employees (particularly lorry drivers). That one's fallen into obscurity. too. No one's waiting for self-driving cars anymore.

   The "AI" hype is in its second year now...

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     Martin Christopher (yora@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 05:13:23 JST Martin Christopher

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     @jzillw The last revolutionary and disrupting tech I can remember that actually became established was BlueRay.

     Which is exactly like DVD as users are concerned, and fully backwards compatible. Just doing an identical job more efficiently.

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     Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 05:28:09 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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     • Martin Christopher

     @yora Come to think of it, Unity3D, Unreal Engine 3, Steam, iPhone, Android, Twitter, and Facebook all happened within the same 3-year span (2005-2008). Not all of these things were ultimately good, but each of them changed a lot in its respective field.

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     Enno Rehling (enno@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 07:09:26 JST Enno Rehling

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     @jzillw are we still putting things on the Blockchain?

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     Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 07:26:20 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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     • Martin Christopher

     @yora @Igigog 3D printing is useful whenever you need a small custom-made piece of plastic. This includes spare parts (for drones, for example, which these days is a military application), but also props (for e.g. LARPs and board games).

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     Martin Christopher (yora@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 07:26:21 JST Martin Christopher

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     • Igigog

     @Igigog @jzillw Oh yeah, 3D printing is actually new and it's now a thing.
     The only thing it is disrupting is probably the toy soldier industry, but it does free a niche hobby from the grip of a few monopolists.

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     Igigog (igigog@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 07:26:23 JST Igigog

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     • Martin Christopher

     @yora @jzillw robot vacuums. The most revolutionarily useful idea in the last years, if you ask me.

     But other than that, yeah, we're kinda stuck. There are SSD's, they're like HDD's but somewhat better. There's also this revolutionary idea of flat rate public transportation, but it's only here in Germany. 3d printers are kinda good but only for their own use cases. mRNA vaccines.

     I guess fascism is a thing nowadays, but that's neither new nor useful.

     Not much innovation these days, huh?

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     Robert Kist 🇦🇹 🇸🇬 (kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 11:35:15 JST Robert Kist 🇦🇹 🇸🇬

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     @jzillw This is a topic really worth discussing! We should meet up in the Metaverse and... oh, wait...

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     Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 18:23:10 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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     • Robert Kist 🇦🇹 🇸🇬

     @kwramm The real metaverse was the strangers we got into pointless arguments with along the way.