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Like blockchain, 3d-printing, cloud and machine learning?
I feel like passionately arguing with you about 3 of your 4 examples
It would be possible to argue about all of them, as each has genuine use cases. Just not to the extend they were praised during the hype.
I fully agree
I'd like to argue why 3 of the 4 are absolutely amazing
Don't forget AI!
“Machine learning” is what people who do AI for a living call AI.
I'd suppose people who work with nano machines don't necessarily call them that either.
But it's the buzz word that has been used to push it's corresponding bubble
To be fair, 3d printing is very cool around the house (and we've 3d printed houses!), cloud is a mild success, and ML is an amazing technological advance with near infinite potential uses that we'll likely see put into action in the coming decades-- but that one's still early to tell.
If you consider some parts of material science or chemistry to be nanotechnology, it's been pretty useful too.