[hnnameblah365]

Most of the things you mention are associated with the hype cycle peak and have not found their big use-case yet.

VR has only a few niche applications in entertainment. Crypto is a solution in search of a problem, and a gambling platform in the meantime.

AI isn't driving our cars, handling our customer service, or analyzing our business data. Good old fashioned algorithms written by humans are now being branded by marketing as "AI" which demonstrates we don't know what AI really is and we can't fend off its redefinition.

Robots is a tricky one because it's such a broad topic. Is an arm on an assembly line a robot? What about complex farming machinery? Does it have to look anthropomorphic?

From my bearish perspective on the first three industries, Europe and the EU (these are not interchangeable terms) have a pretty good track record this last decade compared to SV