Back in the late 1990's I had a laptop and was working in a cafe and the barista asked me if I worked in tech - I said I did - and then proceeded to excitedly g

Back in the late 1990's I had a laptop and was working in a cafe and the barista asked me if I worked in tech - I said I did - and then proceeded to excitedly go on about how Transmeta was going to dominate the x86 market. Yes, a barista (not knocking baristas but they are not known for their deep vertical knowledge in subjects outside of coffee, except maybe english lit). This was the level of enthusiasm at the time for one of the first techno disrupters. It very much reminds me of crypto a few years ago spinning off a cloud of so many a non techie person with a deep-seated, poorly-informed opinion backed up by a Robin Hood account full of DOGE.