It was right there with flying cars and domed cities on the moon. That was part of the whole Disneyworld/OMNI Magazine promise about life in the year 2000.

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    19 days ago

    Totally agree. It’s an improvement, but there was a lot of hype around it, which lead to inflated expectations. As a matter of fact, nowadays we have similarly silly expectations about AI. History repeats itself…

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      19 days ago

      Yeah, we thought it would solve everything.

      It solved problems that uncovered a much deeper set of underlying problems… :)