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> We can debate endlessly whether the horse and buggy is better than the car, or the cell phone will replace the film camera. But at the end of the day, history has shown that none of that matters. We're better off just agreeing to it and working to improve it.

I don't know why people keep pointing to history to argue adoption is inevitable. Isn't history is littered with no-code solutions that no one uses anymore?

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I spent a year in high school with this at the top of the chalk board of my history class: "Those who don't study history are destined to repeat it"

The internet has been entwined in my life since 1991, when I got my first email. Before that it was BBS's. The context and parallels that I'm witnessing now very much align with what I've seen before over the last 35 years. I've bet on some history based predictions in this cycle that few else saw, that absolutely have come true.

This isn't a no-code solution, and not even close to that. It is very much of a more code than ever solution.

> I spent a year in high school with this at the top of the chalk board of my history class: "Those who don't study history are destined to repeat it"

I agree. Just make sure you're not cherry-picking your data. Make sure you include the NFT hype cycle in your corpus.

History told me to avoid NFT hype.

And I suppose Germany in the 1930s taught you to avoid the National Socalist German Workers Party?

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