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Didn't aol try this 20ish years ago?



And CompuServe before them.


Isn’t this how things usually work?

* New stuff comes out -> niche

* Some smart people want to simplify it, but theres too “magic”, and fades away

* General public learns about the underlying tech or at least structure

* Big adoption happens as people trust it

* Some people want to make it “magic”/simple again, but therefore creating a black box Forward a few years, and the industry seems inaccessible for a long time

* people figure out again how things work

Medical, construction, tech, space, movies.. almost everything has this pattern




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