The chatbots are being used as cover to lay off a bunch of workers, and will further shittify the service sector, but I'm slowly becoming convinced that it will fizzle out soon once its clear it won't be what they have convinced themselves it is.
VR and crypto are still around, but neither are the groundbreaking "world will be fundamentally changed forever" technologies they were convinced of at the time.
Buckle up, the year is 2015 and AR is HOT.