--- title: Worth Reading: Eyes Like Saucers « ipSpace.net blog description: A brief pointer to Gerben Wierda's essay categorizing how people react to new technologies — glazed eyes (disengaged), saucer eyes (uncritically excited), or... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/worth-reading-eyes-like-saucers-ipspace-net-blog-1rijsgth2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Worth Reading: Eyes Like Saucers « ipSpace.net blog | daily.dev og:description: A brief pointer to Gerben Wierda's essay categorizing how people react to new technologies — glazed eyes (disengaged), saucer eyes (uncritically excited), or... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/worth-reading-eyes-like-saucers-ipspace-net-blog-1rijsgth2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1RiJsGth2.png og:image:alt: Worth Reading: Eyes Like Saucers « ipSpace.net blog og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Worth Reading: Eyes Like Saucers « ipSpace.net blog **[ipSpace.net Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ipspace)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A brief pointer to Gerben Wierda's essay categorizing how people react to new technologies — glazed eyes (disengaged), saucer eyes (uncritically excited), or narrowed eyes (skeptical). Using generative AI as the example, Wierda argues that people in the first two categories shouldn't be making strategic decisions. The post draws a parallel to past vendor hype cycles like long-distance vMotion, SDN, and intent-based networking. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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