It's very hard to filter blatant self-promotion and marketing jargon from actual innovation (which goes at a much slower pace) these days. The speed people are

It's very hard to filter blatant self-promotion and marketing jargon from actual innovation (which goes at a much slower pace) these days. The speed people are just creating wrappers or minor changes and using words like "disruptive", "game-changing", "democratising <something>" just feel so inflated and boring at this point. I hope this gets very soon into the next phase of the hype cycle[1], so the we can talk about something else. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle