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[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

History is full of famous or important people who predicted "something" that turned out to be bullshit or very different.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

And then, surprisingly, there is this:

I don't think we've even seen the tip of the iceberg. I think the potential of what the Internet is going to do to society, both good and bad, is unimaginable. I think we're actually on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying. [...] I'm talking about the actual context and the state of content is going to be so different to anything that we can really envisage at the moment where the interplay between the user and the provider will be so in simpatico that it is going to crush our ideas of what mediums are all about.

  • David Bowie, BBC interview in 1999
[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 5 hours ago

Yes, turns out one can be too much right about something.