@thomasfuchs The difference being that moving the internet from academic toy to commercial tool had actual utility outside of tech itself. AI over the same period has both been numerous completely unrelated things (e.g. the early Lisp/AI craze), and (IMO) has vastly less opportunity to be a useful tool to actual humans doing non-tech human things.
 
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