"I personally think that, in front of Climate Change dramatic consequences, 8K videos, connected refrigerators, cloud-dependent home automation, cashierless retail stores, autonomous vehicles, smart shoes, the metaverse, Web3, and NFTs are at best helpless and misdirected innovations, at worst and most probably, harmful"

https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/9/263806-let-us-not-put-all-our-eggs-in-one-basket/fulltext