The Year the Hype Cycle Broke
What prediction machinery optimized for hope reveals about us
In January, Tesla deleted its 2016 blog post. The one that claimed every Tesla had “all the hardware necessary” for full self-driving. Nobody made a fuss. Everybody noticed. This is how collective disillusionment arrives in 2025: not as dramatic revelation but as quiet archive maintenance, digital housekeeping that rearranges the furniture to hide blood…
