Not sure why this got downvoted. It totally tracks. The current VR and AI fads aren’t even the first times we’ve had fads on those subjects. Yes, we will get some new tech of varying utility out of each fad, but the overhype is real.
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GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 11 months agoA list of business fads in the tech world, from what I remember:
- Personal computers
- Multimedia
- Networks: Internet, E-mail, World Wide Web, all the stupid names for it like cyberspace, information superhighway.
- Web 2.0: AJAX and the long tail, user generated content, democratized information exchange and discovery without gatekeepers
- Social Media
- The Cloud
- Mobile Apps
- Blockchain, cryptocurrency, decentralized finance, smart contracts, Web 3.0, NFTs
- Generative AI, LLMs, GANs, Deep Learning, etc.
601error@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think by painting it as a bunch of buzzwords people were reading into the comment as either an endorsement that the items in the list were the same, which isn’t what I meant. I’m just trying to give a description of the various buzzwords I remember being thrown around by a combination of scammers, hucksters, cargo cultists simply mimicking the latest trends without understanding them, and actual legitimate business models, without actually giving my views on which ones actually delivered on the hype, which ones overpromised, or which ones totally fizzed out (or are going to).
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s a good list but the blockchain line really jumps out at me for being almost 100% hype and based around a largely useless technology. The rest were real advancements that maybe had a ridiculous hype cycle before settling into an unspectacular but useful phase.