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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's actually a pretty good analogy.

I think more like discovering making fire or something. 90% of all the energy burnt is people worshipping it as it blazes away, never actually fulfilling any practical use except being marvelous to be around.

But once the forest is all chopped down, people are forced to understand fire and realise a couple small logs in a contained place was all they needed to have it be incredibly effective.

Oh, but that's too hard. It's magic right now. All hail the AI bonfire!