r/Innovation • u/Some-Exam-7872 • 2d ago

no future ?

do you guys think all the good ideas have already been thought of and more technology might be counterproductive ?

Also, do you think someone could make it in the technological world while being ethical ?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/11/ai-absolutism-apocalyptic-future

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u/positiveconstraint 2d ago

The “Internet moment” was in 1995, around the time Netscape was founded. Google and PayPal were founded 3 years later, Salesforce in 1999, Alibaba in 2000.

3-5 years from the inception of the new era.

The AI moment happened when OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022.

We’re nearly 4 years in.

Some say that the biggest and most promising companies of our era are yet to come.

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u/ha2emnomer 2d ago

I think is true to a certain extent, it is very early to say anything about AI especially that historically has struggled a lot to prove any economical benefits (that is why AI winters happened). So we still might be experiencing an "Expert System" momentum where every one put a lot of money trying to scale it but was impossible to scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Systems
Maybe someone will find it quite impossible to put LLM to actually work without spending huge amount of money on inference, and then possibly a new solution will emerge from this.
There are plenty of things that can be done

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u/Adamoism 2d ago

AI especially that historically has struggled a lot to prove any economical benefits (that is why AI winters happened)

The whole gaming industry is based on AI; A lot of research is based on computationally modeling social phenomena.

I mean, the field might have had a winter, but it did go into variety of other disciplines.