It feels like every few months there’s a new tech “revolution” being hyped up as the future. Besides AI, what’s the most overhyped trend in tech right now? For me, it’s the constant buzz around the metaverse.

  • @SlopppyEngineer
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    195 hours ago

    Carbon capture tech.

    That one is still being promoted but in the end the CO2 is mainly used to get more oil out of wells.

    • @[email protected]
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      64 hours ago

      Oh yeah, definitely this. The economics will probably never allow it to be deployed at a scale where it will make any sort of difference.

      Instead, it is used as an excuse to not take any action on climate change which is actually realistic, albeit hard.