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Re:Ask HN: Were we ever future-obsessed as we are now? by babyrainbow on Saturday October 08, 2016 @12:49AM (#12665728)
Fantastic comment.

> The marketing hype is not evil, it's necessary - it creates a dialogue, focusing people to think in terms of new technology

Why do you think marketing hype is necessary, and it is not evil. Our most important breakthroughs happened at a time of little marketing hype.

A curious mind is a curious mind without needing to hype it up.

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Re:Ask HN: Were we ever future-obsessed as we are now? by veddox on Monday October 10, 2016 @06:19PM (#12680189)
> Our most important breakthroughs happened at a time of little marketing hype.

I think what he meant was that a marketing hype pushes more people to get to grips with a new technology, and thus speeds up its development. The actual technology obviously has to have been invented (the breakthrough was there) but the hype pushes it further towards maturity.

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