Arachis on Nostr: People have been afraid of any and all major invention: cars, electricity, trains, ...
People have been afraid of any and all major invention: cars, electricity, trains, the metro/subway, elevators, planes, computers, robots, biotechnology, cellphones, etc.
The same currently happens with #Bitcoin and #cryptocurrencies in general, and with Artficial Intelligence ( #AI ) and Artficial General Intelligence ( #AGI ), or #biotechnology.
Every tool carries some risk that is not intrinsic to its nature but dependent on its usage. Fortunately, history tells us that inventions have overwhelmingly been put to reasonable use and improved the capabilities and wellbeing of humans; few hammers are used to break skulls.
So it was in the past and so it will be in the future.
The quest for knowledge and its application to technological development is part of human nature, but is only embraced by part of us.
Every time, the early adopters of a technology, the ones who embraced a new technology and sought to understand its possible uses, emerged better equipped and wealthier in the new paradigm created by the new technology.
People gathering thanks to #nostr, itself a novel protocol, cypherpunks exchanging views and expressing their trust in #bitcoin among others new technologies, are the scouts tracing the path for those that will themselves still be considered early adopters.
Let's be positive, let's move forward, let's build.
The same currently happens with #Bitcoin and #cryptocurrencies in general, and with Artficial Intelligence ( #AI ) and Artficial General Intelligence ( #AGI ), or #biotechnology.
Every tool carries some risk that is not intrinsic to its nature but dependent on its usage. Fortunately, history tells us that inventions have overwhelmingly been put to reasonable use and improved the capabilities and wellbeing of humans; few hammers are used to break skulls.
So it was in the past and so it will be in the future.
The quest for knowledge and its application to technological development is part of human nature, but is only embraced by part of us.
Every time, the early adopters of a technology, the ones who embraced a new technology and sought to understand its possible uses, emerged better equipped and wealthier in the new paradigm created by the new technology.
People gathering thanks to #nostr, itself a novel protocol, cypherpunks exchanging views and expressing their trust in #bitcoin among others new technologies, are the scouts tracing the path for those that will themselves still be considered early adopters.
Let's be positive, let's move forward, let's build.