I think if you take into account the target audience for this article, then she has a fair point to make which is simply the mismatch between the hubristic talk

I think if you take into account the target audience for this article, then she has a fair point to make which is simply the mismatch between the hubristic talk and the reality. That's something non-tech people probably should have brought to their attention. At the same time it's obviously frustrating that she uses such a basic hook at the beginning to get her point across. Perhaps I'm living under a rock but it seems to me that the great majority of tech companies and their employees (including me) are working on things that aren't very important in the scheme of things. Which is fine. What isn't fine are the delusions of grandeur. Especially when people are actually buying into it. I hadn't realized how crazy stuff had got until I read this, from one of our own homegrown entrepreneurs: https://blog.websummit.net/maths-and-conferences-lanyards-and-legibility/ https://blog.websummit.net/maths-and-conferences-lanyards-an... Maybe I should have been watching Silicon Valley on TV.