The wheeler-dealers and quasi-wildcatters who pioneered the field have been replaced by engineers talking efficiency and managers describing manufacturing processes.
Sadly, thewheeler and dealers of the industry are fully aware of this and therefore create ignorance quite deliberately in order to sell things that people would not buy if they were fully informed.
But for others the internet and the dotcom revolution has not meant instant wealth but a rather painful lesson in the harsh world of financial wheelerdealers.