This is an underrated fact. We spend so much money on stupid hype because our system is built to keep giving more and more money to promising technologies, but

This is an underrated fact. We spend so much money on stupid hype because our system is built to keep giving more and more money to promising technologies, but we're running out of actually promising technologies, so the system is (a) focusing the exponentially growing money into just a few techs, and (b) falling for snake oil.