The most obvious sign is that many of the big money techbro guys are leaning into politics and the resulting graft and spoils instead of building things. Crypt

The most obvious sign is that many of the big money techbro guys are leaning into politics and the resulting graft and spoils instead of building things. Crypto really poisoned the well, IMHO, bringing outright scams front and center. The dotcom bullshit from 30 years ago were mostly decent ideas executed too early. Speculation on electronic baseball cards depicting cartoon monkeys was always madness.