So where are all the 3D TVs? Where's the Nintendo Virtual Boy? Betamax? Google Wave? Google+? NFTs?
Oh not transformational enough?
Ok then how long did it take electric vehicles to come back after The fossil fuel industry killed them in like 1920?
Oh here's a good one: thalidomide. That one went away for good.
How about the hole in the ozone layer?
Sorry, AI is only a foregone conclusion because apparently everyone's had their consent beautifully manufactured to an extreme degree.