If you think about the Apple one, maybe that's sort of where the innovators were, people

who were willing to take a risk on it, at the time the alien inflation adjusted $5,000-$6,000

on a computer that basically did nothing.

Right.

You had to make it do anything you wanted to make it do.

And it really led to a lot of people at the time, you know, in that trough of disillusionment

that happened with personal computers of like, no one will ever need a PC in their homes,

right?

Right.

And it's from big fancy people, right?

I'm Mary Long and that's Tim White, who co-hosts this week in tech on the Motley Fool

Life alongside Tim Vires.

Tim and Tim caught up on Motley Fool Money to discuss hype cycles, adoption curves, and

why investors should pay attention to their key differences.

Let's talk about promising technologies.

And you've seen a boatload of them, sovi, over the course of years, what do you think,

when we think about how long it takes, genuinely, like a really promising technology, I mean,

AI is in the news now, right?

A genuinely promising technology, something like an artificial intelligence toolkit, or

artificial intelligence generally, generative AI, like chat GPT.

How long do you really think that takes to become part of our daily lives?

We're hearing about it constantly, but it's not really part of our daily lives yet.

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