The year before the Internet blew up.

[@assezzen194]

I'm gladly announcing that I'm your 400th KZbin subscriber! Thanks Ken! In 2024, the digital pioneers explore the possibilities of cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin was launched in 2009 but gained major traction only after 2017) and artificial intelligence (which really took off in 2023). The current world is changing so fast, technologically and culturally. I hope we will keep some sort of international (pseudo)peace, progress and prosperity... We'll see what the WEF, the transhumanists and others have in store for us... So many new useful, sane things to develop if wise people manage to stay alive, awake, free and creative...

[@SchudarSchway]

Just like 1993/1994 were 99.999% did not see or understand the scope of the up coming internet so today the same percentage can not see what the Blockchain, smart contracts and interoperability will mean for mankind

[@oggyosborne7443]

Love this history, was wondering where you think AI will go? it seems like the early internet - likely to become very popular but no one knows how

[@oggyosborne7443]

I think all media including AI is a passive impulse (basically ts just something you see on a screen) so its fundamentally important how people respond to it

[@adamroper1197]

usenet groups were good.