This seems like an exceedingly negative framing of “people talk about cool new technologies which they think might change the world”. Some of them get excited a

This seems like an exceedingly negative framing of “people talk about cool new technologies which they think might change the world”. Some of them get excited about technologies I think are dumb, or switch topics more than is perhaps healthy, but I don’t see why either one is a big deal. I’m just not their target audience! It’s not as though it’s impossible to find people who talk deeply and soberly about AI, VR, or any particular hyped topic I might be interested in.