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[–] sploosh@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The way I look at it is that I haven't heard anything about NFTs in a while. The bubble will burst soon enough when investors realize that it's not possible to get much better without a significant jump forward in computing technology.

We're running out of atomic room to make thing smaller just a little more slowly than we're running out of ways to even make smaller things, and for a computer to think like, as well as as quickly or faster than a person we need processing power to continue to increase exponentially per unit of space. Silicon won't get us there.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

OTOH you haven't heard of NFTs in a while because AI hype replaced it, so... what hell spawn is going to replace the AI hype?

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm calling it now– it's quantum computing.

I have some friends who work in it, and I've watched and read damn near everything I can on it (including a few uni courses). It is neat, it has uses, it will not install transform all computing or invalidate all security or anything like that. It's gonna be oversold as fuck.

3 blue 1 brown has great videos on it. Grover's Algorithm, the best we can think to try to apply, is √N faster than traditional computing. Which is a lot faster for intense stuff like protein folding, but it's linearly faster. SHA256 encryption still would take an eternity to brute force, just a smaller eternity.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Probably right, but to be fair it’s “been” quantum computing since the 90’s.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

AI has been AI since the 50s.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

AI has had multiple boom and bust times since then. Quantum hasn't ever "happened" yet.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

True, but the grifter crowd has the internet as a medium and is larger and more empowered than ever

[–] Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

This is a good take for a lot of reasons.

In part because NFTs are still used and have some interesting applications, but 90% of the marketing and use cases were companies trying to profit from the hype train.