Yo what’s the next hype cycle that smart folks like us should be working on?

The next hype-cycle might not relate to software. I'm thinking of the (smaller, shorter) phase where "nanotechnology" was getting slapped onto everything including laundry detergent.

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zzzeek 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

mRNA was set to be huge but US voters apparently didnt want it.

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bitmasher9 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That’s the $100M question. Pick the answer correctly and you’ll get record breaking compensation levels.

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quotemstr 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Defense will increasingly become a national priority over the next few decades. Pax Americana is teetering.

	▲	deepdarkforest 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		That and consumer robotics. The latter will explode if (big if) RL and llm reasoning get combined into something solid. Lots and lots of smart people are working on it already of course, we are seeing great improvements but nothing really usable. i think we will finally get to a real hype stage in maybe 3-4 years

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rpcope1 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Probably defense and robotics.

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belter 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The US mix of government and enterprise. You want Capital you need to be MAGA

"Donald Trump and Silicon Valley's Billionaire Elegy" - https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-and-silicon-valleys...

"Secret White House spreadsheet ranks US companies based on loyalty to Trump" - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/15/secret-white...

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gmd63 3 days ago | parent [-]

Smartest people will be working against that. You're thinking of opportunistic people with myopia.

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herval 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Pretty much the entire tech industry has bent the knee by now - they even gifted the new ruler with golden statues. It's not just a handful of people...

	▲	gmd63 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Few people have the balls to do the right thing when the risks pass a certain limit. And yet it's most important to do the right thing at the largest scale.
	▲	zzzeek 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		and when Trump keels over and dies, what happens then? sort of a brittle business plan

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belter 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The law firms failed to do so.

	▲	gmd63 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Some of them have certainly flagged themselves as opportunistic and myopic.