[gumby]

Not to pick on these people specifically, but when they wrote, “technology companies, including VacationRenter, Vitabox, Joblist, Barkbus” I literally laughed out loud. I mean sure, there’s a lot of advanced technology involved in a dog groomer being in a van but it’s all the responsibility of the van manufacturer.

The word “technology” has been completely inflated out of any meaninful description at this point, in part because of its magical cargo-cult aura to a lot of people and in part because what was high tech and novel is often now commodity table stakes these days.

[Brajeshwar]

I believe and have suggested to friends and acquittances that we should stop using xyz-Tech. Technology is now used by almost everyone in one way or the other, just as Electricity is. So, instead of FinTech, only Finance, Agriculture instead of AgTech. The Tech part is now just syntactic sugar to jargon-witch the general masses that are not directly part of the Technology circle.

[wsinks]

And I'm realizing as I'm finally playing through Cyberpunk 2077 that I would prefer to keep it as just a game. I'm all for tech becoming less encompassing like you suggest.

[ugh123]

I believe you just defined "a bubble"

[gumby]

I think it's residue of two bubbles ago.