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According to Lemmy Users: Blockchain was a grift, AI is a grift, Quantum computing will be a future grift. So according to you what new and emergent technologies are not / will not be a grift? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] tristynalxander@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Let's not perpetuate the idea that industry develops most technology. It's all built off academia, which is funded by taxes. At best industry swoops in the last few steps and scales it up. That's necessary and even good, but it's not worth destroying the rest of the world over -- particularly when that includes academic research.