Why Deep Learning is Taking off? Season 1 : Part 1

First it was Machine Learning, and now all of a sudden Deep Learning is taking all the thunder even from Machine Learning. So what's the difference, and why all of a sudden Deep Learning has become the most buzzing new Technology of our Era? Is Deep Learning a false idol being Ubiquitously worshiped or is it the panacea which is going to take us to our Utopia? These are two extreme positions & the reality usually lies somewhere in between. To delve deeply on this question, we need to first know what Machine Learning & Deep Learning are, & the difference between the two.