[smugglerFlynn]

Engineers and marketers are all steered into that direction by C-level visionaries who bet on a very high-risk / high-reward idea. This idea dials up all kinds of biases in people.

For example, the article which started this thread criticizes Apple for moving into AR. This is despite AR being very feasible next step in having actual working tech applicable in real-life situations. Feasible and down to earth idea is being compared to a distant wild guess which has a high risk of never happening, yet somehow it loses this comparison.

There is a certain irony people call this Web 3.0 all over again. Web 3.0 was originally envisioned by influencers as heavily relying on semantic web and anthologies[1]. Despite all the visions, 14 years ago few of these things actually happened.

Could it be that people are just very bad at predicting the future? Could it be that we mis-invest into wild visions based on their popularity, instead of solving boring down to earth problems?

“Ah shit, here we go again.”

[1] http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/web-30-semantic-we...