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>>tablet+(OP)
This happened with the introduction of smartphones too. Every slashdot post had a haughty and upvoted ‘why would i want such a thing!!!’.

It was obviously huge. You could see it taking off. Yet a lot of people proudly displayed ignorance and backed each other up on it to the point that discussion around the topic was often drowned out by the opposition to change. Now today it takes minutes of playing with ai coding agents to realise that it’s extremely useful and going to be similarly huge.

Resistance to change is not a virtue!

>>Anothe+a4
Sometimes it works that way.

Sometimes it’s more like NFTs.

>>ceejay+r5
Slashdot then and HN now, predicted 100 out of the last 10 recessions.