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Ed Zitron

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We're at the end of the Rot-Com boom - every single weird, stupid concept (metaverse, crypto, generative AI) is a symptom of an industry that realizes that there isn't another trillion-dollar market to sell into having a dangerous, expensive mid life crisis.
wheresyoured.at/rotcombubble/

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aka, over-supply of techies running out of ideas.

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Ed Zitron's avatar Ed Zitron @zitron.bsky.social
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The tech industry took the last 20 years for granted - there were so many obvious ideas that software could solve that it seemed that any big tech company could grow forever. 

But that was predicated on there always being new hyper-growth markets.
wheresyoured.at/rotcombubble/

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