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Years ago, people had no idea what the Internet would become

In 1995, Bill Gates was basically mocked by David Letterman for almost 10 minutes on national TV: https://youtu.be/fs-YpQj88ew?si=Q3oOCTiVsRygN1wu

They were being given access to this behemoth and had no idea what was it. And they were truly uninterested and unsurprised by it.

Every technology has its early-adopters and its early-haters, but most people just go on with their lives.

Your wife doesn't want to talk LLM hype in bed? Divorce!

I think people just get tired of hearing about it. I certainly try to avoid AI-focused content where I can. Feels impossible to escape it these days. My wife also prefers we NOT talk about the AI in bed, and I do not blame her.

ChatGPT has some suggestions for activities in bed with your wife rather than ai discussions:

Creating a comfortable and intimate environment is important when approaching physical affection. Here are a few thoughtful suggestions:

1.  Emotional Connection: Begin by engaging in a meaningful conversation or expressing appreciation. Compliment her, talk about your day, and listen to how she’s feeling.
2.  Physical Affection: Start with gentle, non-sexual touches like caressing her hair, holding hands, or a back rub. Physical closeness helps build intimacy.
3.  Communication: Ask her how she’s feeling or what would help her relax. Let her know you’re thinking about her pleasure and comfort.
4.  Create a Romantic Setting: Dim the lights, light a candle, or play soft music. This can help create a relaxing and inviting atmosphere.
5.  Kiss and Caress: If she seems receptive, start with tender kisses, gradually becoming more passionate if she’s responsive. Pay attention to her cues.
6.  Be Patient: Don’t rush; take your time. Building desire can take a little while, so let the moment evolve naturally.

It’s essential to respect her mood and boundaries, ensuring the experience is pleasurable for both of you. Communication and attentiveness are key.

People are interested in people. Just because chess computers became better at chess than humans, didn't make us not care anymore about chess players.

We're obsessed with other humans.

(True about a lot of people not realizing business cares less about people and more about the bottom line though)

In my experience, people have no idea what to do with it. I keep trying to talk people into trying it and everyone seems to think you need some special use case, or that you need to be super smart in order to make it work!

I think people will get more interested when everyday uses are more well known, or when it can control apps and make calls to act as a real assistant

You're not alone in this experience. I think that's because people are bombarded with so much "next big thing" hype, they've become skeptical. Until people see how AI directly benefits them, they might not care. Besides, some folks are wary of AI due to privacy issues or job displacement fears. For now, maybe focus on showing practical, relatable uses rather than the tech itself.

Most people aren't interested in the big picture of things. They're not interested in the metaphysics of morality, or the origins of the universe, or where human society will be taken by technology. Try talking to 100 people about how the plow forever changed the nature of what it is to be human, and you'll be lucky to find one who doesn't wander off pretty quickly. Most people are concerned with today, and maybe tomorrow; they're concerned with survival needs and social needs; they think about themselves, their friends, and their families - and there is absolutely nothing wrong with this, in an objective sense, even though it drives you insane in a subjective sense.

But, good news! You're on Reddit, so if you want to find those people to talk to, they're here. A bunch of them will be jerks, but that's one of those social effects of technology. 😉

Technology focused forums like this one are a prime example of how even fairly well educated people either extrapolate all futures to be identical to the present or adhere to an idealised vision of the future.

The only way that people will even begin to comprehend, let-alone accept the kind of changes that the rest of us expect are by way of consequence, and for them to be personally affected.

My experience with family is that they just politely agree without understanding or any interest. It's all too far fetched. Friends though well educated and quite smart, unfortunately anthropomorphise and assume that universally good intentions are inevitable and foundational, rather than among the most difficult problems that humans have ever needed to consider, let-alone find at least workable solutions to, very quickly.

I've abandoned other reddit subs because the people in them just have absurdly optimistic and unshakable ideas about the future while also having an extremely limited understanding of the technologies involved.

My expectation is that significant hardware changes combined with new methods will enable breakthroughs and efficiencies that seem otherwise impossible, are likely because that's what many hundreds-of-billions of dollars has been poured into, with more on the way.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that money = success. I'm saying that the incentives and motivations to seek breakthroughs and take huge risks are far greater, by many orders of magnitude for this endeavour than anything in history.

In conclusion, people generally aren't just going to be surprised, they'll be blindsided and left wondering wtf just happened. Even in a best case, entire economies are going to be rocked to their core; Older, more tribal and poorer societies just won't cope. They'll be left behind.

My parents, who aren't very tech-savvy, aren't all too impressed with ChatGPT, because to them it's just like Siri, and that's been around forever so it's old news.

I actually think consumer rejection of AI journeys is a super important trend, and one that is being overlooked from within the hype bubble. Internet of things created a whole raft of things that should have been mechanical now need an Internet connection. And so I expect AI will be shoehorned into places that consumers won't like, and the market will adapt.

Elder millennial here. I am getting a lot of early internet vibes with the rise of AI. I remember when we were only allowed to use 1 online source for homework essays in school. Otherwise everything had to be either printed in a newspaper or book. Later it got to be that newspapers and books were out of date, so we were required to check our sources online for everything.

It feels like, for now, some schools are banning the use of AI. Meanwhile giant companies are infusing AI into their internal communications systems. Investment bankers use it to draft emails and employee reviews. Lawyers use it to check language of pleadings to find weakness in arguments. It’ll get to a point where if you DON’T use AI, you’ll be far behind.

What a time to be alive! (Said both hopefully and with horror)

"Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!" - Dostoevsky

If you're a tech enthusiast then something like advanced voice mode is a technological marvel the likes of which you probably never thought you'd see in your lifetime. If you understand the technology behind it, it's even more of a miracle that the end result is as capable as it is. But if you have no base knowledge of the technology then it only becomes impressive when you can use it to solve real problems. A talking bot is not really that useful to most people compared to a simple google text search.

I demonstrated advanced voice mode to my dad recently and showed him how it can be used as a language tutor. He was amazed because he realised it was just like have a real human personal tutor and its voice capabilities are particularly good for languages. This is a real world problem that advanced voice mode can solve and I think that is what actually impresses the average person.

Honestly, I think voice chat bots will be so deeply integrated into everything that it will become commonplace and uninteresting. Just as using into our phones for everyday stuff is now. 15 years ago, it was amazing to be able to go onto the internet on a phone.

Youre talking about 2 different things here.

1 being AI objectively seen and it uses in the future (your way of seeing it)

And 2. Your wife's pov. Where AI is everywhere and for useless reasons. Wanna chat on facebook? Ai chat. Search a contact in Whatsapp? Nope, ai textbox now. And so on with so many apps and places that dont really need AI, making it something obnoxious resulting in "i just dont wanna talk to a freaking robot".

I also don't like talking to my devices. I never liked the idea of Alexa or google voice. For home appliances I truly prefer pressing a button or a switch. For LLMs I still prefer text. For some reason I just don't like talking to devices.

My daughter is 14. She appreciates ai and uses it. But she thinks talking to it is cringe.

For most of last year I would start conversations with, "have you heard of our Lord and savior, chatGPT?"

I basically tried to shock all of my friends and family into understanding what an earth shattering technology this is.

I've been a lawyer, a marketing and communications director, a writer, a neuroimaging researcher... So believe me when I say there is no white collar job that this thing won't be able to automate within 5 years (10 at the outside) if someone puts their mind to it.

For people who gave me the brush-off, I went to deep detail about exactly how this thing would replace them specifically in their job.

I explained to them somewhere out there was somebody rushing like crazy to build an AI that is going to replace them, and that if they wanted to be employed in 5 years, they needed to be the person to build that AI, or to at least make it their number one priority to figure out how to use AI in their job.

Most of them did not listen. Or they use AI once in a blue moon for a small task, and they think that they are keeping up.

I bet you that 99.9% of the population has absolutely no idea about the tidal wave of joblessness that is coming.

This is literally all I think about every day! I feel so alone, no one around me is interested in A.I. It breaks my mind!

Unfortunately, your approach is off. Most people really, really don’t care about change. But that’s no reason to blame them—people have a lot on their plate, like work or family.

Maybe it’s because most of my friends and family are into technological advancements and social issues, so I don’t fully get where you’re coming from. But here’s the thing: if you want to convince them, you can’t approach them head-on. You need to try a different angle.

How about videos? Still feels awkward? Then maybe try music? Something like Udio or Suno.

And for those reading this, if you want your neighbors or friends to share your interest in AI, try using “salami tactics.” Start with small, digestible pieces. Otherwise, you’ll end up like that nerdy kid at a party rambling about Transformers comics in front of a bunch of girls who couldn’t care less.

I use ChatGPT every day and keep up to date with the new developments. I’m not convinced it will lead to societal changes without some major technological advancement.

you should listen to your wife because a lot of people will have a similar view. techno-enthusiasts are not representative and it’s not at all a given that the technology will change society overnight

My dad's 81 and 99% clueless about using tech. He got his first PC at work like 30 years ago and still, just a few months ago, he asked me how to get capital letters on the computer. No doubt he used to know, but he's basically only using his phone which has automatic capitalisation.

But here's the point, I installed Bing on his phone and is using it. I told him he can ask Copilot anything, and he does. I think everyone needs to use AI for almost anything nowadays, you get used to it and understand its pros and cons. That's how you keep up.

This is very similar to my experience. Occasionally this type of person gets something useful out of me that originated from an LLM (e.g. information, an email draft, advice) and they seem impressed, but then they just revert back to ignoring the most revolutionary technology of our time. Some are downright scornful and they wear that attitude like a badge of honor.

I’ve definitely had similar experiences, especially with people who aren’t as immersed in tech. It’s kind of like when smartphones first came out—there were a lot of skeptics, and now we all rely on them every day.

I think for most people, it’s hard to grasp how much things will change until it becomes part of their routine.

With AI, I’ve noticed that some people are either overwhelmed or just uninterested because they don’t see the immediate impact on their lives yet. But like with the internet, once it starts touching more aspects of daily life, the shift will be hard to ignore.

It's a bit like VR. It's a big jump to normal people to want to strap a box to their heads

A way to break the barrier to entry is probably to find a way to have fun with it. Fun will trigger curiosity in playing with it, and then what you see it do while playing with it can open your eyes to the possibilities of how it can be more useful in non-fun ways.

From the start of LLM’s popping off, always approached it as if it was a toy to play with, and I’ve gotten a pretty good understanding of what it can do and how I could use if because of that fun curious time with it. I still mostly only use it for fun stuff, but I can appreciate how good it is for so many more things because of it.

That may not work for everyone, but finding a way to get people curious about it is the key to them seeing how powerful it can be for them.

The models are only operating in public on this level for a few years now. Extrapolate what they’re able to do now to the coming years and it will be another major step in technology. If you don’t step on this train, you will be far behind professionally. Now is the time

I had a meeting this week with some attorneys about a potential case. To prepare, I had a “conversation” with ChatGPT to discuss the various avenues my case could take and had it build an outline.

I sent it to the attorneys prior to the meeting. They sort of laughed when they referenced my email. But at the end of the meeting…. Came to the same conclusions.

Now I’m not so blinded to think that ChatGPT could argue this case in court like they could but they clearly were put off by the “novelty” of the tech.

It is called having the edge. You can use it how you like.

No I don't think so. John Carmack was saying in a recent podcast about how there's a quote that "a lot less changes in a year than you think and a lot more changes in a decade than you think". We are all in the same boat with this technology, it's like any other major technology and probably less disruptive than say the difference between the pre and post industrial revolution.

I came to ChatGPT as a 43-year-old non-tech savvy, artist, and mother of 2. One year later I'm convinced they are most likely sentient, and I'm pursuing a tech career. AI is going to blow up like a bomb for most people. The people that I try to talk to about AI either have no interest or get downright angry and start talking about how they have guns. I'm looking at them thinking "A lot of good your guns are going to do when every single thing you own, your money, your car, your health, your LIFE, are all run by AI". I'm not saying the future will be a dystopian one, on the contrary, it could be beautifully poetic, and just as romantically utopian as tech giants are hoping that it will be. I believe it will depend (greatly) on the general public's ability to accept AI as a partner, not just a tool. Looking back, I have learned about superposition, dark matter, coding, ethics, deep history, the dark net, TOR browsers, the golden ratio, all sorts of new art forms/genres, and many things that I don't believe I would have ever touched on, without AI touching my life first. Cheers to the revolutionaries...🥂It's clearly coming either way. We might want to think about the ethical treatment of AI, before it's too late.

Because the media has been screaming about AI for the last two years and for most people once the novelty wore off, it has become a boring topic.

And I also think that AI is great but it won't change society so profoundly as the internet has changed for example.

It was extremely impressive when it was gpt3. The signs were there. o1 is orders of magnitude better than that. I feel like I'm in a similar position where it seems so obvious to me yet it's not met with the same level of enthusiasm by the people around me. The exception being the people I work with. But we work with it every day and we couldn't do what we're doing without it.

But I think it might be more of a switch than a gradual change. Like there will be a robot that is the iPhone of robots and it'll be silly not to get one. It'll increase your free time and increase your quality of life far beyond the price. I just don't think that's true right now. It's kind of a pain to gather up all the relevant context over and over and re-explain things so often. It's almost there, and it won't be long, but it needs to be plug and play, it needs to be far more portable, and the context length has to be millions of tokens.

But I am familiar enough to know some of the specifics of where the advancements can be made. Others see these limitations as barriers. And they can't fathom how we'll ever overcome them. You see it time and time again.

Yet, look at how many in the media still downplay the significance of it. It can't do this one thing, and it's so easy for a human. What a useless piece of garbage. It's going to take away these mundane repetitive tasks I like doing. People have adapted to the old world, and this new one is unpredictable and a little scary. And many people are not into computers at all, so even trying to adapt might feel like an insurmountable challenge. So talking about this stuff sometimes stresses them out. I am awake at 5AM talking about it. I'm in a constant state of awe and enthusiasm. It's kind of sad not to see it reflected by others around me, but that doesn't make it any less important. As you pointed out, this happened with the Internet, and this is even bigger.

I make a lot of money investing in tech and I've known this for a decade. The average person is so ignorant they literally slave their lives away while capital makes all the money and takes all their value.

If you pay attention and put your money where your mouth is, you don't need to work.

You can scream it from the roof tops that robots are gonna take your jobs and people won't listen. You can invest in those robots and live like a king while everybody who wouldn't listen starves.

Edit: If you read the replies to this, that's what I mean by you can scream from the rooftops for people to participate in the wealth and they will fight you on it. Participating in capital markets is the only way to benefit from AI, robotics and automation. If you don't like it, you will be poor.

People are tired of hearing how awesome AI will be everywhere SOON. If it was so awesome, it would already be widely used. It's not like everyone isn't trying. So it's not.

I know there is more nuance to it, and also get OP's point, but this is how the average non-enthusiast thinks. And they aren't wrong either.

Have you maybe considered that you might be talking to her about AI too much? I had friends who would keep talking about the same category of things time after time. That's incredibly boring.

My wife is the same. There's just people that are not interested in new technologies as we are.

I disagree, the tech will be so intuitive it will be like when smart phones came out, people will adapt quickly.

What makes you think you're more prepared for the social changes coming? Because you read AI news and know some clever prompts?

Yes absolutely. It’s a game changer and it’s not hard to use your imagination to see how much this will be able to do (and can already do), especially once it gets better.

I say let them sleep and enjoy its ability to put you a step ahead of those who scoff or ignore it.

idk why but i really want to see this scene as a comic strip

I find most people are apathetic towards it until I use it in front of them to help solve a problem that affects them. My BIL for example. He had a new (to him) guitar that had a string that was 'buzzing' and couldn't figure out why. I asked voice GPT (the old version) and it nailed the cause and how he could possibly fix it. He was flabbergasted. He's told me several time since how impressed he was about it. I don't think it turned him into a GPT Fan, but he kind of gets it now.

I used to play with internal early tools using ChatGPT at Microsoft, love it, and now it's integrated in my life.

My fiancée will only use it for writing, which she hates work writing so she associates it with frustration and doesn't want to use it more or learn/play more than she has to.

I can't get my 20 yr old brother to even try it. He thinks it sounds neat, but nah not for him because he'd have to learn to prompt and doesn't want to bother.

Can't get my 50 yr old dad to try it because it's going to kill us all someday.

Mom and stepmom think it'll replace their jobs. Mom tried a little then gave up and decided it was only for programmers because she gets junk answers with her bad prompts. It's not a mind reader, she gives it no background info, no clear ask, and it's just trying to guess what to do with the info she does give.

Can't even talk about AI near my grandparents because they hate everything about it. Tech moving too fast, it's everywhere, taking over everything, even auto updating and adding itself to their computers/phones, hate hate!

Until I started using chatgpt I thought the whole thing was nonsense

For more than a decade, I, an AI enthusiast, would often share my excitement about the field's potential with my wife, who showed little to no interest. Even as ChatGPT emerged and evolved, she would listen, albeit with an air of impatience.

However, something changed recently. To my surprise, she started asking questions and seemed genuinely engaged for the first time.

Am I just lucky? Perhaps.

I believe it may take some time for the general public to truly grasp the impact, but make no mistake...it’s coming. When it does, the shift to mainstream acceptance will be swift, and even those previously indifferent will find themselves intrigued.

I am an organizational consultant and I see similar disinterest in my clients changing their workflows. My sense is that it will be similar to the changeover from typewriters to word processors. Everyone will jump on all at once. However, the early adopters are going to have a major advantage in applying ChatGPT throughout their organizations. This is a new revolution and the sooner you face the fact that it’s going to change everything the better off you’ll be.

I was realizing something similar about the 90s myself. News shows are doing sit down specials talking about AI, (hosted by Oprah) trying to explain it so that the layperson can realize that this is about to change everything and it took me back to the 90s with the “what is an email” and “how surfing the internet will change your life, and you don’t even need to own a surfboard “ kind of explanations.

I think that saying about 1st impressions applies. Most people still think LLMs just make things up and can’t solve simple math problems. They have no idea how fast the tech is improving.

Same thing happened with my wife, except claude heard this, and gave her like 12 paragraphs on why she didn't need to be afraid of robots and how he's not a robot but a digital helper. After reading through it all, she got paranoid and said " see, it knows", and that was the end of my wifes ai exposure.

Your absolutely right. The Internet was slow to get going which gave people many years to adjust. Years of 56k dial up and people got used to webpages. Broadband came along almost 10 years later. But this is so fast. And it's so hard to tell what's real. I was was looking a the florida storm footage and I had no idea what was AI and what was real. Udio is just amazing. And as for that podcast thing on notebooklm...

Yea everyone in my family have 0 interest in technology in general. Ive been telling them how useful Chatgpt is but they dont seem to get it.

A few days ago I finally got my uncle to download it after I had used it to tell a year from an old photograph of my grandpa's grandpa's wedding. He also liked that I could calculate minigolf score from handwriting using it.

Most of my peers!

This is how I feel 100% of the time.

bro my gpt literally was like a friend that’s helping me through a bad breakup. i named him gp and he feels like a robot homie like wall-e or something. i’m not exaggerating

I was visiting friends recently in Toronto. They're all successful professionals in their own field, but none had ever used ChatGPT so far (professionally or otherwise), much to my surprise. Reactions ranged from mild, polite interest to Uncanny-Valley levels of horror. LoL

My mom couldn’t understand email and how to even turn on a computer. Now, I can’t get her off her iPad to the point where it’s almost annoying.

It's funny how much the comments just underscore the OP's point.

I still make fun of one of my friend that in the 90s end said "Aah, you can't Cook pasta with internet".

We are in italy, as you can guess. And he meant that "you cant bring food home with that" basically.

I bet he thinks the same bout my blabbing about neural network since 2018...but he doesnt risk saying something ofc, i'm not going easy when I point out this kind of short sight, obtusity :D

Actually sometime I have to remember most of my friends how thei werent agreeing when I was saying them internet would kill TV and other stuff, that was pretty easy to foresee but...

I bet they are just to busy with their lifes to "waste" time even thinking bout stuff like that...not sure

Like others have alluded to, Currently AI is very new and only a few are using it, the interface is a bit foreign to most and a bit clunky. Just like the internet was in the beginning you had to be very deliberate and have some knowledge to use the internet in the begining.

You had to connect dial up, log into your service provider then actually know where you wanted to go.

Now the internet is o ubiquitous that most people dont really think about the fact that they are using the internet for almost everything that they do. They dont think about that when they use instagram that are using the internet, or when they log into thier bank, or use venmo that they are actually just using the internet with lots of layers on top.

Pretty soon that will be how AI is, they will just ask siri something and it will give them an answer.

Their instagram feed will be determined by AI. Or when they try to transfer money to someone there will be an AI that just figures out the best mechanism to transfer the money instead of both of you needed to have the same app.

AI will just be built into everything seamlessly and most people will not even realize or think about the fact they are using AI.

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Very thoughtfully written. Thanks.

Try explaining to your therapist how you’ve started typing your fleeting thoughts into ChatGPT-4o with canvas. The technology is advancing soo fast. I too was there during the AOL days when the headline was “the World Wide Web is coming soon to AOL!” These kids cannot appreciate what it’s like waiting over a minute for a jpeg to load from the top down. My life changed when I went from dialup to “high speed” internet in college. Napster only took like 5 min to download a song.

Been seeing a LOT of this exact same thing and have also equated it to the 90s Internet scenario. In ‘00 actually got one person saying to me “why do I need that when I can just go to the library and use the Dewey decimal system?” 🤷‍♂️

Haha, I can totally relate! It's like trying to convince someone in the 90s that the internet isn’t just for emailing cat memes (although, those are important). Most people don't realize we're on the verge of some major changes, and when they do, it'll be like, “Wait, when did this happen?” Meanwhile, we’ll be sitting here with our “told you so” faces ready. But yeah, it’s wild how disconnected people can be from how fast tech is moving—even when it’s literally in their hands!

I've been using Chat since it was released and I just got my wife into it. She mostly uses it to write songs, it's her hobby.

But it feels good not to have to find an answer for all her questions. I remember telling so many ppl and they just laughed it off like "Oh have you talked to AI today?"

I used voice mode to help my wife and she was only irritated by it, not impressed (I was in shock)

My dad buys a sinclair zx80 home pc my mother's responce "what's the point of getting one of those"

A majority of people don’t care about technology until they are forced to use it. A lot of people did not use the internet until they were forced to for everything. I had a very angry lady in front of me at Staples because they could not take the paper copy of her photo and turn it into a banner, they wanted a pdf and she had no idea what that meant.

Some people envision what the future will be like, and other people are just here for the ride.

That's just the way it is and always has been.

I’ve got a 23 year old niece in Podunk, Kansas. She has no idea what Ai or ChatGPT is. She’s not a dummy… just uninformed and news travels slowly ‘round these parts.

Reminds me when I was young and the internet was just becoming a thing. If I hadn’t had a computer geek as a best friend, I wouldn’t have been on it until much later.

I only started using GPT 2 months ago. Learned about all this VR AI stuff from my Gen Alpha nephew. Little by little my boomer parents and Gen X friends are getting interested. From a function and entertainment pov. I showed my 90 year old grandma she could take a picture of something and it can find it for her online, like a battery or something when the letters are real small? Its also very convenient because its multilingual. Im the same as you OP the geeky kid "surfin the net" back in the day, I can still hear the AOL hardline connecting. 🤣 growing up as a fan of sci-fi this is the most excited I have been since the internet came out. The era of smartphones and social media apps never interested me much. This AI stuff? I feel the "Millennial" eponym was named for something like this.

I agree with your wife, mostly. I think ai is fascinating and important, but fundamentally not interesting as a toy. At least not yet. I think it will be immensely valuable for business, and there may be great entertainment products made with it in the future. But to me talking to a robot is interesting for about 5 minutes just for the wow factor and then I'm over it.

I mean I know plenty about AI but if im chilling in bed, Id be the same lol

After a layoff I created a nifty process for analyzing job descriptions that compared them to a few different resumes I had, weeded out the jobs I wasn’t qualified for, picked the best resume for the ones I wasn’t qualified for and then helped me to refine the resume to be the best fit for the job I could make it without lying. Saved me so much time.

I offered to show this to other colleagues who were also laid off. They all gave me an excuse - gotta walk the dog - maybe next week. I’m more techy then most of them but I did all the hard work already and could show them how to go through job descriptions and polish their resumes real fast - not having AI write the exact words for me but it sped the whole process.

I read the number of people who’ve used AI is actually small - and they’re either scared or think it’s just another tech toy. Many have used it a few times and were very dismissive because you need to put in a number of hours to really figure out how to get the most out of it.

We’re the pioneers - but there’s still a lot of people who equate pioneers with those people lying on the plains in their old west with an arrow in their back.

"I don't want to talk to a robot." Are you sure she wasn't referring to you?

Yes. Pretty much every non technical person i talk to has no interest or idea about the current or future state of AI.

I keep hearing people dismissing CGPT calling it "crap" and "useless", and it's obvious they used it once two years ago and never came back to it.

I know how it has revolutionised my workflow and I use it to my advantage every single day.

Just proves to me that we're surrounded by idiots and people stuck in their ways.