Episode 317: Fahrenheit is perfect for BBQ

This week we discuss Gartner’s Emerging Tech Hype Cycle and analyze 10 years of “Software Eating the World.” Plus, is Willie Nelson a good singer…?

Rundown

• 3 Themes Surface in the 2021 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
• Chris Dixon Blockchain Tweetstorm
• Ten Years Software Is Eating the World - Andreessen Horowitz
• Disney wins this round: Here's where the streaming giants stand at the end of earnings season

Relevant to your interests

• Salesforce announces first integrations with Slack after closing $28B sale
• Custom Silicon
• LEAKED MEMO: Google is dismantling its embattled health division as the tech giant reconsiders its strategy for healthcare
• 'Worst' AWS service ever? Cloud giant introduces Redis-compatible MemoryDB – to mixed response
• 'Not great, but usable': GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1
• Turing Pi V2 is here - Turing Pi
• Google's newest cloud region taken out by 'transient voltage' that rebooted network kit
• A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
• Grafana Labs Raises $220 Million Round at $3 Billion Valuation
• Serverless, Multicloud Popular with K8s Users, Survey Says
• Elastic acquires build.security for security policy definition and enforcement
• The Modern Data Stack: Open-source Edition ****## Nonsense
• ASML is the most important company you've never heard of.
• Rejected Old Bay Jingle
• Ford doubles Lightning production target on strong pre-launch demand -sources
• Streaming Churn
• New Tilting Stops $100 Million Fix of San Francisco's Millennium Tower

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Just Bare Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Chunks
• Coté: Noppes thrift store.

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