For what it's worth: The bootstrap revival is a pretty big deal, much more important and more immediately useful than almost everything else Wolchover writes about. It's a new set of techniques for analyzing existing theories, and it applies equally well to theorist's toys like supersymmetric QFT and to experimental workhorse models like the 3d Ising Model. Rychkov, Poland, Simons-Duffin and (now many) others have been working at it for just a couple of years, and they've already set the gold standard for the computation of a lot of important and difficult quantities.
