It wasn't so much lots of early promises never panned out as that the dynamics of how the technology ends up being different than how people thought it would be

It wasn't so much lots of early promises never panned out as that the dynamics of how the technology ends up being different than how people thought it would be. I admit I skipped over the specifics of cloud computing because it was already a fairly long post just focused on AI. (The general premise as you paraphrased it and the point I was trying to make are somewhat related but they are different.)