[vinceguidry]

That's all well and good, but the examples you gave are problems of scale and economics, not invention. XMPP works as well as you want it to, and clients are on all the platforms, but Apple users want to use iMessage. That's not a problem that any kind of invention can solve.

The buzzwords themselves are references to incremental improvements in the state of the tech ecosystem that allow more powerful solutions for all. An app we all have on our devices right now, Slack, was once buzzword soup. Now it's an actual solution used by businesses the world over. It's not perfect, but it works better for our collective needs than IRC ever did.

What's going to replace the Slack's of today's tech world? I dunno, but I bet they'll be built on buzzwords.

[matte_black]

We do not all have Slack on our devices.

[vinceguidry]

I see many many non-technical teams that use Slack. Slack's made inroads in the business messaging market that used to be the sole domain of enterprise vendors like Microsoft, Cisco, and Oracle.