A walk through the tech graveyard | What the Tech? – KOB.com

For Google or Apple, there is an NFT or a Metaverse. Here’s a walk through the tech graveyard. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — Looking back over the last 10-20 years, it’s easy to find technology that was either ahead of its time or ahead of reality that is now just part of the tech graveyard. Remember NFTs? Non-fungible tokens raised billions of dollars. Some digital art sold for millions. Digital art galleries were supposed to be coming. A year later, the bubble burst. And now? It’s as quiet as a real art museum. Hand-in-hand with NFTs was the Metaverse, a digital land where people were supposed to live, work, socialize and even go to church! Facebook even renamed itself “Meta” and spent over $70 billion chasing the future. The headsets still work and people still play games – but a virtual world, where people actually wanted to live in, never materialized. Then, there was Clubhouse. During the pandemic, the audio-only app was everywhere. Anyone could host a conversation and thousands would listen in. Once real life reopened, users left as fast as they arrived. Who will ever forget “Google Glass” in the early 2010s? These glasses put the internet
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