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Here’s Meredith Whittaker on the “key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world” in a recent interview with Politico: What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. ...