| ▲ | nostrademons 5 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
I'm also reminded of all the HN posts from 2007-2009 that predicted that the adoption of social networking would be a terrible thing for privacy, that it would destroy society, that people would lose their jobs over crazy shit they said on the Internet, that it would lead to the decline of trust and in-person interactions, that people would forget how to socialize, etc. They were right about all of that but it took 15-20 years and the companies involved grew 100x in that timefold, eventually reaching trillion-dollar valuations that would've seemed insane in 2007. There is a tremendous amount of money to be made in destroying society. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | mike_hearn 4 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Eh, you can find HN posts predicting that literally everything will destroy privacy/society/trust/etc. Predicting doom is a popular pasttime. What I remember from that time period is people predicting that we were in a tech bubble driven by social media, that obviously Facebook and LinkedIn were overvalued because social media was a trivial fad, and so on. Example article pulled at random: https://theconversation.com/linkedin-is-floating-on-air-or-i... And yet there was no bubble, these companies did fine and Meta became a financial Godzilla. | |||||||||||||||||
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