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What will be the next fad once the VC dummies figure out that chat bots aren't very useful? (hexbear.net)
submitted 10 months ago by Parsani@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Just over the last few years it went virtual reality, blockchain and crypto crap, and now chatbots.

What will the next fad be? I'd like to know so I can convince one of these VC ghouls that they should give me money for vaporware.

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[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Palm Pilot Gang

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nah, the palm pilots were actually okay, I'm talking like windows xp tablet pc edition

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That does live on in touscreen laptops though, but I know what you mean. I'm still skeptical about the vision pro having the same effect.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

I'm not necessarily predicting that AR will actually succeed or be useful, just that a lot of VC money will try to jump on the bandwagon now that Apple has