Which technology do you think will die out, and which one will probably change our lives?
Over the past one, 2, or even 3 decades, technological development has accelerated dramatically thanks to the digital revolution.
– But some technologies generate a lot of hype and still don’t seem to have reached mass adoption or shown enough long-term potential. For example, that’s how I currently see wearable glasses.
– On the other hand, technologies and concepts like the internet, social media, artificial intelligence, and perhaps even Bitcoin have already had a profound impact on society.
Which technological inventions do you think have little chance of succeeding and will eventually fade away?
And then, is there any emerging technology that you believe will have a major impact on the future?
1. Personally, I think the current concept of wearables may eventually lose momentum.
2. And I believe AI-powered robots have enormous potential, especially in areas such as logistics and the military.
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Interesting question!Personally, I think NFTs as they were hyped a few years ago have very little chance of becoming mainstream. The technology behind them may still find some use cases, but the hype around profile pictures and digital collectibles seems to have faded a lot.
@hosseinyazdi I couldn't agree more. I dont know much about NFTs and I never really understood the hype around it, but there was value because we said there was value...and that drove the market.
@hosseinyazdi @wereframe thing about markets, is they're only there as long as the interest is. NFTs compete with AI for GPU space, and AI has proven itself useful which I think has doomed crypto and NFTs.
@hosseinyazdi NFTs may survive, but only after they enter witness protection and stop calling themselves NFTs.
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@hosseinyazdi I gambled these too. :D Earned some money, lost some money, but the experience was good I think :D
I think most AI wrapper will die only the once which fix a real problem will stay
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@marc_vuit 2026 definition is "Everything is AI wrapper" – honestly, even here were many products launched like those. And it has become unoriginal.
@busmark_w_nika I think while it fixes a real problem then it will stay :)
Die out: the standalone "an app for everything" era. We're moving toward a few agents that DO things across your apps, so most single-purpose apps quietly become a feature - or just an API call an agent makes in the background. The icon grid is on borrowed time.
Change our lives: voice/conversational as a REAL interface, not a party trick. For ~15 years "talk to your computer" plateaued (Siri/Alexa recognized words but couldn't actually do the thing). It's only now crossing from "understands you" to "handles it for you" - and when the cost of doing something drops to "just say it," behavior shifts underneath you, the way touch did to keypads.
Agreed on wearable glasses - cool on stage, no daily job-to-be-done yet. My rule of thumb: the tech that wins is usually boring and removes a friction you feel every single day, not the one that demos best.
@getosmo I think "die out" is the wrong frame. The more interesting question is what stays visible and what becomes infrastructure. Infrastructure you don't notice. Products you do. The ones that win usually end up in the first category.
@jared_salois Fair — 'die out' is imprecise, and your reframe is sharper: almost nothing dies, it sinks below the waterline into infrastructure. I'd argue that IS the death I meant — the single-purpose app doesn't vanish, it loses its icon. The capability survives as an API an agent calls; the surface is what dies.
And that distinction has teeth commercially: the moment your product becomes infrastructure someone else operates, you usually lose the customer relationship — the agent owns the user now, you're just a backend it picks. 'Visible vs infrastructure' isn't only UX, it's who gets to own the demand. Which is why I think a lot of today's app companies will quietly fight NOT to become infrastructure, even when it's the better experience for the user.
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@getosmo what do you refer to as "an app for everything"? :D Because Elon had that ambition :D
@busmark_w_nika Ha, great catch — I meant the opposite of Elon's dream :D Not ONE app that does everything (the super-app), but the death of 'there's an app for that' — the era where you install a separate app for every little task.
The funny part: I think agents quietly deliver what the everything-app never could. Elon's building one walled garden you do everything inside. The agent version is the inverse — a thin layer ABOVE all the apps you already have that just... does the thing across them. You don't need an everything-app if something can drive every app for you.
Same destination ('I just want it handled'), opposite architecture: super-app = everything moves into one box; agents = the box disappears and something operates the boxes you've already got. My money's on the second — nobody wants to re-platform their whole life into X :D
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@getosmo borders are erased, AI agents are doing things beyond our comprehension. I think that they will take over the internet :D
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@arti90 yes, no need to learn it.
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@pranay19 I am afraid that humankind will lose the work completely.
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@pranay19 But it may not happen. To change the things, we need to go to the politics :D
Hello @busmark_w_nika I think a lot of “AI wrapper” products will fade out, especially the ones that only add a chat box on top of an existing workflow without changing the outcome. But AI agents connected to real tools could change a lot, because they move from answering questions to actually doing parts of the work. The impact will depend on trust, permissions, and how safely they can act in the background.
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@alpertayfurr But don't you think that almost everybody is starting to deliver AI agents too? I mean, what if it is another hype?
@busmark_w_nika Yes, they are improving it, but ultimately, users will be left with applications that have influence, trust, permissions, and how securely they can operate in the background. I think the most important issue with agents should be security and control.
A lot of technological inventions came and went but Robots are being worked on consistently.
And examples like A.I, Terminator, Wall-E make more sense now.
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@gia_khan but we are not yet there :D for me, it is still sci-fi (but less sci-fi than comparing to 2010) :D
@busmark_w_nika True :D, but it's kind of scary - Absolutely agree to less sci-fi than 2010 :D
Imagine us saying this 10 years down the road....
my take: most AI wrappers that just put a chatbox on top of an existing API. not because the idea is bad, but because the underlying models are getting smart enough that people will go direct, or the model itself will absorb the use case. the ones that survive are the ones that are deeply embedded in a workflow, not just a prettier UI on top of GPT.
what i think actually rewires things: agentic workflows running quietly in the background on business data. not the chatbot you talk to, but the thing that goes off and does the multi-step work while you're in a meeting. we're maybe 2-3 years from that being boring and normal in enterprise, and that's when the real behavior shift happens.
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@nolan_vu AI wrappers happened 3 months ago, now, we will have any other "boom". Just let's see what it is :D
@busmark_w_nika honestly yeah, the cycle is getting faster. wrappers had their 15 minutes, now it's agent frameworks, then it'll be something else nobody's named yet.
the ones i actually still use aren't the shiny ones. they're the ones buried so deep in my workflow i'd notice if they disappeared. that's probably the real filter.
What a beautiful question and I cannot wait to read the responses. On the first one, wearable glasses, I'm with you, niche market for a long time.
My two answers:
I'm so deep in my own product right now that I can barely see the rest of the world, so take this with a grain of salt.
reFrame. It's built on a standard for how we treat each other, the R3 Framework: Regulated, Respectful, Repairable. When the world hears Google, we think search. My bet is that "did you reFrame it?" becomes as common as "did you Google it?"
reFrame is the X-ray of communication. You can't change what you can't see. See the patterns. Break the cycle.
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@wereframe Will be interesting to see the evolution of your product :)
From an IT perspective, I don’t think wearables will disappear entirely — but many current form factors probably will. Smart glasses, for example, still feel like a solution waiting for the right everyday problem.
What I do believe will change our lives is the combination of AI, robotics, and automation. Not just humanoid robots, but practical systems in logistics, healthcare, manufacturing, and defense. The real shift will happen when AI moves from screens into the physical world.
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@good2know That one combination will be crucial and maybe our destiny.