Lack of Use Cases: a Lesson about Handling Hype
Gerben Wierda published an interesting article documenting how overhyped technologies eventually wither due to lack of realistic use cases.
He’s writing about blockchain, but it would be relatively trivial to replace that with OpenFlow – when was the last time you’ve seen something implemented with OpenFlow that wouldn’t be easier to do with traditional tools?
When talking about any new product I always ask "why should I care?" Sure, it sounds cool, but what makes it compelling? Why is this thing better than doing nothing?