Lessons learned from 6 overhyped tech trends
Bill Doerrfeld | January 5, 2026
My
latest on InfoWorld explores major tech trends that failed to deliver.
I don't know about you, but no fully immersive, transhumanistic reality ever arrived in my workplace.
My friends and I never ended up storing all our data in a globally distributed immutable ledger, either.
And no — I'm not spending my hard-earned money on non-fungible images of bored apes.
I have a lot of data, but I wouldn't call it "big." It's mostly sinking in various lakes that no one can access.
The hype cycles go on and on... so today I poke fun at six overhyped trends on InfoWorld.
Read the article to commiserate on past failures, and pull out the lessons that actually matter going forward.
More than bubble-bursting hot takes, the piece explores the psychology underlying tech's insatiable lust for the next big thing.
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