While I agree with you and other commenter, putting all in the same basket is not really fair. Shitcoins were shitcoins from the start and it hasn't changed.

While I agree with you and other commenter, putting all in the same basket is not really fair. Shitcoins were shitcoins from the start and it hasn't changed. Real quantum computers will take decades to construct as it's an engineering problem. But it doesn't prevent us to play with the existing hardware, using the available tricks to reduce noise etc. and get the feeling of how it could be useful. Crypto (as in cryptocoins, not cryptography) was an interesting idea that was turned into a Ponzi scheme. Still, one day when the dust settles, maybe somebody will construct a reasonable alternative immune to the mistakes made in the past (well, I doubt it, but life taught me nothing is impossible). Autonomous driving got overhyped and irresponsible companies driven by greed started to send on the streets vehicles that weren't 100% ready for the task. I believe we will see AD one day, but I don't believe it will happen very soon. IoT is basically everywhere, maybe we're not using that name any longer, maybe "smart" sounds better. Try buying a consumer TV without it. VR is a very interesting tech development for certain niches and I'm happy it's being developed even though I can't stand 5 minutes in the current hardware. I believe there are many advantages of such a solution, but probably just a fraction of what Meta marketing department says - their proposals are simply ridiculous. The cloud is similarly everywhere. All significant hosting providers started providing cloud services. Maybe marketers try to deliberately make the term fuzzier, but from the technical point of view it's an amalgamation of technologies for managing virtual machines spanning over multiple physical servers - and that's incredibly useful.