{"id":78960,"date":"2018-05-24T02:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T09:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/ignore-the-hype-over-big-tech-its-products-are-mostly-useless"},"modified":"2018-05-26T07:04:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:04:53","slug":"ignore-the-hype-over-big-tech-its-products-are-mostly-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/ignore-the-hype-over-big-tech-its-products-are-mostly-useless","title":{"rendered":"Ignore the hype over big tech. Its products are mostly useless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ignore-the-hype-over-big-tech-its-products-are-mostly-useless.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite this, a regular ritual of hype and hysteria is now built into the news cycle. Every now and again, at some huge auditorium, a senior staff member at one of the big firms based in northern California \u2013 ordinarily a man \u2013 will take the stage dressed in box-fresh casualwear, and inform the gathered multitudes of some hitherto unimagined leap forward, supposedly destined to transform millions of lives. (There will be whoops and gasps in response, and a splurge of media coverage \u2013 before, in the wider world, a palpable feeling of anticlimax sets in.) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It\u2019s years since Silicon Valley gave us a game-changer. Instead, from curing disease to colonies on Mars, we\u2019re fed overblown promises, says Guardian columnist John Harris.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/may\/21\/big-tech-products-silicon-valley?CMP=fb_gu\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/may\/21\/big-te...?CMP=fb_gu<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite this, a regular ritual of hype and hysteria is now built into the news cycle. Every now and again, at some huge auditorium, a senior staff member at one of the big firms based in northern California \u2013 ordinarily a man \u2013 will take the stage dressed in box-fresh casualwear, and inform the gathered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79027,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78960\/revisions\/79027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}