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Crypto is probably the closest echoes of this era. Unfortunately the youth isn't going to follow most of this, and their fondest memories are themselves mostly going to be considered missteps, like the problems with building recommendation systems in the past decade.

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The file sharing era was anything but a get rich quick pyramid scheme hyped by greedy unethical shills who want to make a quick buck by pulling the rug out from under the next gullible sucker to come along who's as dishonest and fraudulent as they are.

It all boils down to the difference between the words "sharing" and "scamming".

Not to mention the fact that file sharing also has many practical applications, and doesn't pollute the atmosphere and cause cancer and lung disease by burning megatons of coal, unlike crypto.

Hmm, yes, let's all work together to fight climate change, but uh... not peer-to-peer, having a middleman is always more efficient, even with a global decentralized ubiquitous network of personally controlled, energy efficient devices, best to continue to delegate to a bank that's delegating to a bank.

Oh, and yes, you can be the middleman -- you seem trustworthy, I nominate you for de novo utopia money dude, enjoy your new, absolute power.

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