Really shows you how out of touch the tech world is with humanity and what average people care about.

Really shows you how little attention most of humanity and ordinary people direct towards existential technologies and their futures. It didn't matter that most people at the time didn't care about the internet; it still upended human societies all the same. It's a similar thing for AI, gene editing, and organoid computing. It doesn't matter what the average person thinks or cares about; it's never mattered