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Exactly! If this post had been written 20 years ago it would have started with Internet, handheld computers, electric cars...The problem is the same dudes. Pu
by pedalpete 8mo ago
Exactly! If this post had been written 20 years ago it would have started with
Internet, handheld computers, electric cars...The problem is the same dudes.
Putting beanie babies in with Quantum Computing and Nuclear Power completely ignores the potential life changing elements of some technologies, even if they don't work.
Oh, and smart glasses he put in there, so he'll be eating his words in 2 years.
- graemep 8mo agoNo-one thought the internet was a failed technology in 2006. It was a vital tool by then. Handheld computers were an expanding market, dominated by Blackberry. EVs were an immature technology but hybrids like the Prius were selling.
- senko 8mo agoYou may remember this video featuring Facebook with a ridiculously high $15B valuation, Skype, YouTube and other failures: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I
- inigyou 8mo agoThis YouTube link proves that YouTube is a failure?
- senko 8mo agoHave you seen the video?
- graemep 8mo agoNo, never seen it. Why would I? There is a huge difference between claiming that there is an investment bubble in an industry and some companies are overvalued and that the technology is a failure. Someone might well think that Tesla is very overvalued, but that EVs are successful. If someone thinks there is a house price bubble that does not mean that they think houses are a failed technology.
- edent 8mo agoOP here. If you're interested, here are my thoughts on Google Glass from 12 years ago. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/04/quick-thoughts-on-google-glass/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/04/quick-thoughts-on-google-gl... I am looking forward to 2028 matching the hype of 2014.