Person B: Have you heard of this thing called the Internet? It's the future. You should buy as many dial-up modems as you can before the price goes up. Once the Internet becomes mainstream, we'll all be rich.
Person A: Why would the price go up?
Person B: Because adoption. Everyone will start using the Internet. You could use it to store information, transact, compute things... everything will be on the Internet.
Person A: Isn't that just computers in general?
Person B: No, unlike just your home computer, anything that is on the Internet stays there forever. It's also decentralized, meaning no one can shut it down or control it. And most importantly, it's global. Everything has to be global nowadays. That's the future. Personal computing was the first revolution. This is the next one. Imagine if you could go back in time to the 80's before personal computing was mainstream. This is that...
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