Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: January 24th, 2022Taxonomy of HypeWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it’s not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for January 24th, 2022.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on January 24th included MattSci, Todd Gamblin, Aaron Goldman and Tom Lyon. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
The tweet about the topic: Johannes Klingebiel’s (2022) The five Levels of Hype taxonomy

[@8:24](https://youtu.be/qrWgmkBfn9s?t=504) Roko’s Basilisk (slate.com)
[@10:21](https://youtu.be/qrWgmkBfn9s?t=621) Cloud Computing
[@12:09](https://youtu.be/qrWgmkBfn9s?t=729) Mobile, Wi-Fi (introduced in 1997) Adam broke his hand, but can still type dtrace with one hand

[@15:14](https://youtu.be/qrWgmkBfn9s?t=914) Java 
Write once run anywhere
Cross platform graphical interfaces


Windows NT
[@17:47](https://youtu.be/qrWgmkBfn9s?t=1067) Storage technology 
Dedup
ZFS copies setting and redundant_metadata

InfiniBand, iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER), SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP)


[@26:15](https://youtu.be/qrWgmkBfn9s?t=1575) 3D XPoint (Intel Optane) wiki
HP Memristor FAQ

HP “The Machine” 
HP research’s pure hype marketing pitch

The (absolutely incredible) Star Trek crossover ad > I’m gonna provide you the emotion of a revolution, but not the technical detail to > support it, not yet, but it’s coming.




[@31:02](https://youtu.be/qrWgmkBfn9s?t=1862) Segway (wiki) 
Dean Kamen wiki

Decoder Ring podcast (June 2021) Who Killed the Segway? ~40mins slate.com, Apple podcasts

2001 Good Morning America Segway unveiling, Diane Sawyer is underwhelmed > I’m tempted to say “that’s it??” (nervous laughter) > But that can’t be it!?


[@34:29](https://youtu.be/qrWgmkBfn9s?t=2069) Maglev, Cold fusion
Walter Isaacson (2021) The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race book

Human Genome Project wiki

Hype booms and busts
Todd’s story on working on fusion at a national lab, and the nature of gaining funding for large projects


[@45:30](https://youtu.be/qrWgmkBfn9s?t=2730) Rust
[@48:43](https://youtu.be/qrWgmkBfn9s?t=2923) DTrace
[@52:14](https://youtu.be/qrWgmkBfn9s?t=3134) Nanotechnology 
K. Eric Drexler wiki

Expert Systems, AR/VR


[@56:23](https://youtu.be/qrWgmkBfn9s?t=3383) Chatbots Dan Olson (Jan 2022) Line Goes Up - The Problem with NFTs ~2hr video (worth every minute)

[@59:11](https://youtu.be/qrWgmkBfn9s?t=3551) Serverless 

Itanium IA-64, Very long instruction word VLIW

Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE, ATA over Ethernet AoE > A solution in search of a problem


[@1:06:50](https://youtu.be/qrWgmkBfn9s?t=4010) Taligent wiki
Tom Hormby (2014) Pink: Apple’s First Stab at a Modern Operating System post

Be Inc wikiBryan’s Be whiteboard story



[@1:13:47](https://youtu.be/qrWgmkBfn9s?t=4427) Docker Monetizing open source

[@1:20:28](https://youtu.be/qrWgmkBfn9s?t=4828) 5G
If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next Twitter space will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time; stay tuned to our Twitter feeds for details. We’d love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!