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Re:HN Poll: Fads – Hype and Hope by auganov on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:57PM (#17138201)
Hope:

D. Blockchain - I'd say the blockchain is overhyped by the mainstream but severely underappreciated by Silicon Valley types. It works, it's fundamentally novel. Money is a big deal and this changes money as we know it. A huge challenge to governments and legal systems. It has this 90s Internet feel to it.

H. Detox - Having a safe world where you can trust people is a catalyst for all kinds of progress.

J. Dark data - It works and is underutilized.

Hype:

A. AI - It's great just don't see us hitting the Kurzweilian hypergrowth.

C. IOT - Mostly has to do with improving the legacy-world. Boring.

B. Microservices - whatever.

Re:HN Poll: Fads – Hype and Hope by tabtab on Friday May 25, 2018 @12:12PM (#17155118)
Blockchain is just glorified check-sums (on money value and content); I don't see how it allows things that couldn't be done before. Was check-sum tech simply too crappy or hack-able back then? Maybe I'm missing something.

Detox = bouncer/moderator. Again, I don't see what's new technology-wise. It's a business decision to have scrubbers of some kind, and it takes resources to scrub well. I could see it as a "business trend" or customer preference trend maybe, but typically the pendulum swings back and forth on such.