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What’s the most overhyped tech trend right now? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by mahin@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Small modular reactors. You see these being proposed but so far they're not being built.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The two nuclear developmemts I'm watching closest are the test molten salt reactor in Oak Ridge, TN and just recently heard about a new permit to build one for Abilene Christian University in Texas.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Molten salt sounds like a terrible design for modular, the whole problem is if it loses power it freezes solid, you'd want a huge one with tons of backup imho.

I'd imagine a tiny pebble bed or traveling wave, something fairly inert and safe.

Edit: I guess that's the point, give someone a reactor, if they screw it up it safely freezes dead. Problem solved.

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