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In The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em>, one of Wilde’s characters – I forget which – tells us that everything useful is ugly because it expresses a need.<\/h1>\n

There’s something profoundly beautiful in the form of Web Summit.
\nWhat could be more useless than the alpha startup searching for speculators to invest in their game where a player speculates on imaginary real estate? What need could that imaginably express?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

What could be more self-defeatingly worthless than a carbon-trading platform that simultaneously deploys the incredibly energy-intensive technologies of both blockchain and AI?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Yet here it is at Web Summit: a Beta Startup searching for further investment.
\nIt’s only the second full day of Web Summit and I already feel like I’ve seen it all before.
\nA speaker at the AI Summit stage reminds us once again that AI is a gimmick, currently being shoehorned into everything without regard for efficacy.
\nI pass a stall for the hilariously named startup \u201cAikido Security\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

A Centre Stage talk called \u201cDid Elon Musk Destroy Twitter\u201d predicts a future character-clash between Musk and Trump, and ends with the conclusion that Elon Musk has \u201cescaped the gravitational pull of accountability.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Out of direct sunlight, this city is cruelly cold. Robbed of hope for the future, I might as well go play more chess.<\/p>\n

Amy Grace from Lissbon<\/p>\n

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