I think a lot of the blame falls on the hype machine from Silicon Valley these days. SV has mastered manipulation of the press, and that&#x27;s a power that can be used just as much for bad as it can for good.  The drive to have the next celebrity CEO as well as being the talk of the town has driven this media craze.  Relying on the media to drive celebrity rather than accomplishments and engineering chops is what changes SV back into any other mundane cronyistic industry.<p>Looking back at the Theranos hype, it was exactly the phrases that SV loves to hear, but without any of the data to back it up. That can work in software to some degree, where you can just build what you need, and it&#x27;s just an engineering problem. You can&#x27;t do that with science; nature is not as malleable as code.