And sometimes it disappears entirely for a while because either culturally, the world isn't ready for it/to adapt to it, or it wasn't delivered in the right form.
Google Glass comes to mind, which died 11 years ago and XR is only just now starting to resurface.
Tablets also come to mind, pre-iPad, they more or less failed to achieve any meaningful adoption, and again sort of disappeared for a while until Apple released the iPad.
Then you have Segway as an example of innovation failure which never really returned in the same form like the others, and instead now we have e-scooters and e-bikes which fit better into existing infrastructure and cultural attitudes.
It's quite possible LLMs are just like those other examples, and the current form is not the going to be the successful form the technology takes.
An even more recent example is the Metaverse. Something that has a similar pattern of being pushed top-down onto employees. Remember when Mark Zuckerberg decreed[1] that employees must spend part of their time in Horizon Worlds?
Google Glass comes to mind, which died 11 years ago and XR is only just now starting to resurface.
Tablets also come to mind, pre-iPad, they more or less failed to achieve any meaningful adoption, and again sort of disappeared for a while until Apple released the iPad.
Then you have Segway as an example of innovation failure which never really returned in the same form like the others, and instead now we have e-scooters and e-bikes which fit better into existing infrastructure and cultural attitudes.
It's quite possible LLMs are just like those other examples, and the current form is not the going to be the successful form the technology takes.