This is a post by Patrick Connolly (University of Barcelona).

Tech innovation generally arrives on a predictable wave of hype and hyperbole, we’re used to this by now. It serves the economic interests of the companies proclaiming their latest developments to spread the idea that what they have created is a revolutionary development that will lead us towards utopia. Indeed, the overriding economic model of tech is based upon generating publicity in order to encourage investment and the creation of multi-billion-dollar stock market valuations for companies that lose billions of dollars every year.