i find this line of questioning exhilarating

Ryan “Garbage Day” Broderick thinks the bubble’s near to bursting. So do I—but in the name of honesty, I’ve thought it for the better part of two years now and, well: here we all still are! Nonetheless, the gap between the hype and the word on the street is acquiring the status of a genuine chasm… which, as Broderick and many others happily concede, is nothing to do with what various new devices can actually do or not do, and everything to do with the sweeping transformative claims made for the suitcase word of Those Two Letters when compared to the actual impact of gimmicky apps and plugins on ordinary people. Even folk far more committed than I to “tech” as an inevitable and necessary expression of capital-P Progress now seem willing to admit that, while they’re not going to throw around strong words like “naked”, maybe the emperor does appear a little under-dressed for the weather. I don’t do predictions, and this isn’t a prediction so much as what I will freely admit is a guess…