Younger people who didn't witness it cannot fathom the hype around the Segway.

[existentialcomics@mastodon.social]

Younger people who didn't witness it cannot fathom the hype around the Segway. Every news station agreed it would revolutionize the entire social fabric of the Earth. That all future humans would divide history between the savage days of the past, and the soon to be new era of zoom zoom scoot scoot.

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@existentialcomics I remember the hype every time I hear "It's inevitable - get used to it." :-)

[existentialcomics@mastodon.social]

Seriously though, Steve Jobs said it was "as big a deal as the PC", and future cities would be designed around it, and John Doerr (another tech billionaire) said it it would be MORE important than the internet.