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mrob ◴[] No.44478895[source]
>Everybody wanted the Internet.

I don't think this is true. A lot of people had no interest until smartphones arrived. Doing anything on a smartphone is a miserable experience compared to using a desktop computer, but it's more convenient. "Worse but more convenient" is the same sales pitch as for AI, so I can only assume that AI will be accepted by the masses too.

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sagacity ◴[] No.44479756[source]
People didn't even want mobile phones. In The Netherlands, there's a famous video of an interviewer asking people on the street ca. 1997 whether they would want a mobile phone. So not even a smartphone, just a mobile phone. The answer was overwhelmingly negative.
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jen729w ◴[] No.44480071[source]
I’m at the point where a significant part of me wishes they hadn’t been invented.

We sat yesterday and watched a table of 4 lads drinking beer each just watch their phones. At the slightest gap in conversation, out they came.

They’re ruining human interaction. (The phone, not the beer-drinking lad.)

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hodgesrm ◴[] No.44480752[source]
Think like an engineer to solve the problem. You could start by adjusting the beer-to-lad ratio and see where that gets you.
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1. relaxing ◴[] No.44481024[source]
In US colleges there is a game known as “Edward Fortyhands” which would solve the problem quite well.